In Front of Fifty Thousand Screaming People

Ronny Thompson just want to play baseball. He's good at it, and can pitch the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series victory in over a century. So why are all these Mafia-type event swirling around his life? How does he extricate himself from them? And how does he concentrate on winning games, rather than on his estrangement from his parents, is girlfriend, and an aggressive reporter, and on so much that his farm upbringing didn't prepare him for.