People who love baseball do strange things. The best basketball player on the planet gave up millions of dollars and left the NBA to play for a thousand a month with a low level minor league baseball team. The world's first millionaire author would trade every dollar if he could have played just one season of professional hardball. What follows are the true stories of one of baseball's greatest teams and one of the world's best novelists - as well as one of his classic works of short fiction..
