Fiffer, Steve

Speed in baseball is elusive, both as a commodity and as statistic. It's the first thing scouts look for in a ballplayer, because it's the one thing that can't be taught. Yet it is the least measurable weapon in the game. Timing and rhythm are baseball's moorings; speed can knock both for a loop.

A collection of writings by authors, fiction and non-fiction, each evoking a memory of home.

Tells the story of the discovery of the nearly-complete skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex in South Dakota in 1990 by Sue Hendrickson, a worker with commercial dinosaur hunter Peter Larson; and discusses the battle that ensued for ownership of the bones--a fight finally won by Chicago's Field Museum, with help from Disney and McDonald's.