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Contents Prologue. “If They Make It, We Make It” (Agents) 1 Part 1. Spring Training 2005 1. Crash Davis Territory (Doug Clark) 11 2 Can’t Miss (Brad Baker) 19 3 Fluttering Away (Charlie Zink) 36 4 Manny Being Manny (Manny Delcarmen) 51 5 A Dream Deferred (Randy Ruiz) 66 Part 2. Opening Day to the All-Star Break 6 “It’s the Life—the One Everyone Wants to Live” (Baker) 83 7 Opposites Attract (Delcarmen and Zink) 93 8 Baseballtown (Ruiz) 104 9 “They Got Him!” (Agents and Matt Torra) 119 10 Waiting (on Deck) for Godot (Clark and Torra) 141 Part 3. The Second Half 11 Suspended Disbelief (Ruiz) 159 12 The Three Hardest Outs in the Game (Baker) 168 13 Goose Bumps (Delcarmen) 174 14 “If You Make It, We Will Come” (Zink) 187 15 At Heaven’s Door (Clark) 199 Interlude. The Off-Season 16 There’s Always Next Year, Sometimes 217 Part 4. Opening Day 2006 to August 12, 2008 17 Going Home Again (Delcarmen) 235 18 A Giant among Legends (Clark) 239 19 Knockin’ after Midnight (Ruiz) 247 20 “Just Hoping to Have It Be Over” (Torra) 266 21 On the Big Screen (Baker) 269 22 “The Path of the Knuckleballer Is Rarely Linear” (Zink) 275 Epilogue. The Strangest Luck 292 Acknowledgments 303 Notes 307 Index 315 [34.201.16.34] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 14:46 GMT) Knocking on Heaven’s Door ...