Author, Jules Tabak, grew up in Detroit, Michigan, once known as the city of champions. Baseball was his first love, playing the game every chance he could. At the age of 17, he tried out for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He passed two out of three tests, failing the one test only because his throw to home plate did not hook as it always did before. If he had been thinking, he could have asked for another chance, but, instead, walked off the field in despair.