Includes index

Introduction -- A moneyball man -- The Cardinals years -- Blood in the hallways -- An idiot strategy -- The island of misfit toys -- Radical ways -- The coup -- Validation -- Bashful and the bulldog -- In the can -- McKinney at the bat -- The hurricane -- Lines in the sand -- Here was an inefficiency -- A lion and a deer -- Pressure machine -- Incriminating evidence -- Why is it all on me? -- Logistics -- Epilogue

"The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dramatically descend into corruption, with never-before-told details of a broken management culture, the once-revered leaders who enabled it and the scandal itself." -- inside front jacket flap

"A book reporting on the rise and fall of the Houston Astros"--