[
 {
  "chunk": 0,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Jack Keefe writes to his friend Al that his minor-league club has sold him to the Chicago White Sox; his old manager sends him off with encouragement, and Jack brags about his record while admitting he has never really been in a big city.",
  "predicament": "Someone plucked from a small outfit for a big-time organisation boasts of being ready while never having seen anything like it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 1,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Jack credits himself for being scouted and promises the boys back home he is not swelled up; in December he arrives in Chicago to call on the owner, Comiskey, at the ballpark office.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer promises the friends back home that success will not change him, then goes off to meet the big boss."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 2,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Comiskey is away hunting; the secretary laughs at Jack's demand for three thousand dollars and tells him to wait in town, where the hotel and meals are draining his little money.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer names a high figure to an underling, gets laughed at, and must wait in an expensive city while his money runs out."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 3,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Jack works out what living in the city will cost him and vows he will not sign for less than three thousand, whatever mood the owner comes back in.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer tallies the cost of the new life and resolves to hold out for a big number, sure the boss will give in."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 4,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Comiskey mocks Jack's three-thousand-dollar demand, and Jack ends up signing for fifteen hundred a year, soothed by vague talk of bonus money in the autumn.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer who swore to hold out for a big figure is teased by the boss and signs for half."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 5,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Jack has spent twenty dollars on a new suit; in March he writes from spring training in California about the special train and the crowds he imagines were looking at him.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer on his first trip with an important outfit imagines the crowds are admiring him in particular."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 6,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "The veteran coach Gleason mocks Jack's table manners, gluttony and weight at breakfast; the manager Callahan warns the men not to treat training as a joke.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer who eats like a glutton is ribbed by a senior hand and decides the mockery is only envy of his talent."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 7,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Jack skips the ordered long walk because he is tired, ignores the star pitcher Walsh's advice to obey orders, and Gleason jeers at his laziness.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer ignores an order on his first day, brushes off a veteran's friendly warning, and is openly jeered for laziness."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 8,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "In batting practice Jack throws full speed at his own teammates, scaring them, and Callahan tells him half-laughing to save his strength and go easy on his own side.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer eager to impress goes at his own colleagues full force during practice and is told to ease off."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 9,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Jack writes in his underwear before a hotel dance, then brags of shutting out the regulars for three innings in a practice game and reads Walsh's advice on hiding his spitball as jealousy.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer who shone once against the old hands mistakes a veteran's offer of help for jealousy."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 10,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "At supper Gleason cuts everyone down; when the veteran Collins praises Jack's fastball, Gleason tells Jack not to believe it, since the league's pitchers are faster than he is.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer basking in a colleague's compliment is told flatly by a senior hand that he is nothing special."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 11,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Gleason tells Jack he fields like a washerwoman and has a lot to learn; Jack threatens that other clubs would snap him up, but agrees to extra coaching, and he mentions a society girl who has taken to him.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer told bluntly he has much to learn answers that rivals would snap him up, then grudgingly accepts lessons."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 12,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Teammates play a fake-telegram joke that he has been sold, which briefly fools him; Jack is picked for the first squad's trip and claims Gleason taught him nothing he didn't know.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer promoted to the favoured group takes all the credit and pretends the mentor who helped him taught him nothing."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 13,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Jack blames teammates for the runs scored off him in exhibition games; Callahan dryly advises him to learn a slow ball and watch how others field and hold runners.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer who blames colleagues for every slip is given pointed advice by the boss and cannot tell if he is being mocked."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 14,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Callahan ridicules Jack's windup and walks off; Jack vows to punch him if ever bawled out, then describes a night on the town in San Francisco and a letter from the blonde.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer who is mocked by the boss swears he would hit back if ever scolded, then goes out on the town."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 15,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Jack plans to look up the blonde, Violet, in Detroit; in his first poker game with the team he wins a pot with four sevens against Kelly and immediately quits.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer who wins his first stake off a colleague quits on the spot, leaving the loser no chance to win it back."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 16,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Kelly insults Jack for quitting a winner and the two nearly fight; Jack blames his fielders for losing to Venice, and Callahan sarcastically warns him not to overwork.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer who nearly comes to blows over a small win then blames colleagues for his own loss and is mocked by the boss."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 17,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Callahan starts Jack against a pickup team because he wants to finish early, which Jack reads as a compliment; a veteran jokes that his 'fadeaway' fades over the fence.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer given an easy task for the boss's convenience takes it as proof he is finally being recognised."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 18,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Jack's remark to an old lady on the train becomes a team joke; at breakfast Callahan tells him bluntly that he isn't improving and won't field his position.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer becomes a laughing-stock among colleagues and is then told by the boss, alone, that he is not improving."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 19,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Callahan gives Jack one last chance in St. Joe to show hustle or be shipped back to the minors; Jack is sure no one could send him down, and the team calls him 'Four Sevens'.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer is given one chance to show real effort or be sent back down, and is sure it could never happen."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 20,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Jack does well in St. Joe and Callahan praises him, so Jack thinks his place is cinched; he is courting Violet by mail and is down to about ten dollars before payday.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer who finally earns the boss's praise decides his place is secure while his money quietly runs out."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 21,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "On the eve of the season opener Jack pinches pennies on meal money and asks to pitch the first game; Callahan says he hopes not, which Jack doesn't understand.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer eager for a big assignment asks the boss for it and misses the plain meaning of the refusal."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 22,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Several rookie pitchers are left behind, which Jack takes as a good sign; Gleason keeps mocking his weight, and Jack does not get into the opening loss.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer who survives a cut while others are dropped reads it as a vote of confidence, though still passed over."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 23,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Jack's first real appearance is one inning in a hopeless game; he walks the first man, then retires three batters and brags about it.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer finally given a small part in a lost cause does it tolerably and boasts as if he had saved the day."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 24,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Callahan sends a pinch hitter up for Jack, who tells the manager he is making a mistake and gloats when the hitter fails; Callahan blows up, and Gleason urges Jack to apologise.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer publicly tells the boss he is wrong, gloats when proved right, and refuses a senior hand's advice to apologise."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 25,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Callahan agrees to start Jack against Detroit only because his pitchers are exhausted; after the game Jack writes that he was beaten and blames a sore arm, the catcher and the fielders.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer handed his big chance only because no one else is left fails badly, and blames injury and colleagues."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 26,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Jack claims his arm was too sore and that his catcher and fielders let him down in a sixteen-to-two rout; Cobb taunts him from the plate.",
  "predicament": "Someone humiliated in their first real test insists everyone around them failed, while a rival openly taunts them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 27,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Jack and his catcher argue over signs while runners steal at will; Callahan leaves him in to take the beating and mocks him about his friends from home coming to watch.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer who argues with a colleague in the middle of a disaster is left to suffer by a boss who mocks him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 28,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "The rout continues; Jack falls fielding a bunt and forgets a runner, while Callahan refuses to take him out and jeers that his friends want to see him pitch.",
  "predicament": "Someone failing badly in public begs silently to be relieved, and the boss makes them finish as a lesson."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 29,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Callahan finally pulls Jack with a string of insults; Jack writes Al the 'truth' blaming his arm, and says he will punch the reporters and pitch better at Detroit, where Violet waits.",
  "predicament": "Someone sent off in disgrace writes home a version where it was not their fault, and promises next time will be different."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 30,
  "story": 0,
  "summary": "Comiskey tells Jack he has been sold to San Francisco and no club claimed him; Jack says he will quit rather than go, and sneers at the rookie left-hander who has just thrown a shutout.",
  "predicament": "A newcomer who thought no one would let him go is sent down, claims unfair treatment, and resents a quieter peer's success."
 }
]