John B. Sterling

Uma visão provocante nas paixões pessoais e profissionais de Billy Chapel, um lendário lançador de baseball em fim de carreira, que se vê obrigado a reexaminar suas prioridades quando confrontado com circunstâncias inesperadas: uma troca de time após 20 anos defendendo o Detroit Tigers e a ameaça de Jane Aubrey, com quem vive há vários anos, de deixá-lo.

Joe Torre after failing to win a championship when he was a professional baseball player and as Manager to three teams is named Manager of the Yankees. And he finds himself having players like Dwight Gooden, Wade Boggs and Daryl Strawberry who are considered has beens. And players like David Cone who are ill. But nevertheless thinks he can win with them. At the same he deals with the loss of one brother and another brother battling the same condition that killed his brother.

When his star recruit botches a Major League Baseball debut, humiliated talent scout, Al Percolo gets banished to rural Mexico, where he finds a potential gold mine in the arm of young phenom Steve Nebraska. Soon, the Bronx Bombers put a $55 million contract on the table—provided a psychiatrist can affirm Nebraska's mental stability.