The Game Master

The Game MasterNot Everyone hates a loser. In Seattle in 1991, the city sat by mournfully as the owner of the Mariners--the only major-league baseball team in the Pacific Northwest--announced he was selling the team and that the most likely buyer planned to uproot the club to Florida.It didn't much matter that the Mariners had been perpetual cellardwellers with one of the worst records in the majors. Residents of Seattle--indeed, the entire region--didn't care that their team lost, they just did...