Table of Contents

Preface xiii

Prologue xv

Chapter 1 Best Class Ever 2

Chapter 2 In the Beginning 30

Chapter 3 Change in the Air 42

Chapter 4 Of Dreams, Daring, and Dying 78

Chapter 5 Birth of a Season 96

Chapter 6 A Capital Question 108

Chapter 7 Keep Cool, Baby 118

Chapter 8 Victory Special 138

Chapter 9 Lessons Learned 146

Chapter 10 Coach Emerson, Buckeye 158

Chapter 11 Mace, in Your Face 168

Chapter 12 The Ten Percent Rule 180

Chapter 13 The Team Up North 194

Chapter 14 California Dreaming 212

Epilogue: The days after 250

Bibliography 293

Index 295