[
 {
  "chunk": 840,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "After beating New York, Keefe gets his promised $3,000 contract and is told to keep it quiet so others will not demand raises; he tells only his roommate Tom Dorgan, a shy third-string catcher who rarely plays.",
  "predicament": "Told to keep his new raise secret from colleagues, a man immediately confides it to his closest friend, who earns far less."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 841,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Dorgan envies Keefe his money, wife, children and home; Keefe jokes that he will pass on the next girl who makes eyes at him, and pities the lonely bachelor.",
  "predicament": "A lonely friend envies a man's comfortable life, and the man offers, half joking, to pass on his surplus admirers."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 842,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "His wife suggests spending the raise on a car, citing the used car her new partners the Dumonts bought; Keefe stalls, scoffing at the cost and at the idea of her driving it.",
  "predicament": "A man's wife has plans for his raise, and he stalls her while privately scorning the idea of her having any control."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 843,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Keefe criticises the other manager and relieves in a win. After the game the Dumonts propose a drive out of town for drinks and bring along a pretty young woman, Miss Mulvihill.",
  "predicament": "After a good day, a married man and his wife are invited on an outing with her business partners and an unattached young woman."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 844,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Keefe fetches the bashful Dorgan to partner Miss Mulvihill; the 'like new' car is a cramped wreck, and in the squeeze Dorgan ends up on Keefe's lap with the two women pressed beside him.",
  "predicament": "A man brings a shy friend along to make up the numbers, and the awkward seating pushes the friend aside from the start."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 845,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "At the roadhouse Keefe entertains the table while Dorgan sits tongue-tied; Keefe pays the bill and makes a gallant remark, which he takes as winning the young woman's heart.",
  "predicament": "A married man shows off at an outing while his shy friend sits silent, and he mistakes politeness for infatuation."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 846,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Miss Mulvihill rides home on Keefe's lap with his wife's leave; when he asks her opinion of Dorgan, she says 'Why don't you speak for yourself, John?', which he takes as a declaration. His wife gives him the silent treatment.",
  "predicament": "Asked to speak up for his shy friend, a man hears the young woman's teasing reply as a confession of love for him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 847,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "After rolling in at five, Keefe is sent to pitch and is beaten; Gleason fines him $50 for being out all night, and Keefe threatens to quit, blaming the women who pursue him.",
  "predicament": "After a late night out, a man is made to work the next day, performs badly, is fined, and blames everyone else."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 848,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "A short note: the team has just lost to Cleveland and leaves on a long road trip.",
  "predicament": "Setting off on a long trip away from home, a man writes a hurried note after a disappointing day."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 849,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Gleason lifts the fine after a win; watching from the stands with the young woman, Keefe sees a brawl between two players and boasts it would never have happened if he had been playing.",
  "predicament": "Watching a fight he took no part in, a man boasts loudly of what he would have done to the troublemaker."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 850,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Keefe squeezes Miss Mulvihill's hand when she seems frightened, boasting he would sort out the brawlers, and stops only when he catches his wife watching.",
  "predicament": "A married man flirts with a young woman beside him until he notices his wife watching, and stops."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 851,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "At supper Dorgan keeps dancing with Miss Mulvihill, which Keefe believes she only endures; she asks where the team will stay on the trip, and Keefe says it is best for her that he is going away.",
  "predicament": "A man convinced a young woman pines for him believes he is doing her a kindness by going away."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 852,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "The team is beaten badly in Detroit and Keefe blames bad breaks; he has found a car for sale at $1,200, twice his budget, and believes the seller has taken a liking to him and will come down.",
  "predicament": "A man eyes something far beyond his budget and convinces himself the seller likes him enough to lower the price."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 853,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Dorgan talks of nothing but Miss Mulvihill and asks Keefe's help winning her; Keefe pities them both, sure she loves him, and decides his family must come before helping his friend by bowing out.",
  "predicament": "A shy friend asks a man to help him win someone, and the man is privately sure she prefers the man himself."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 854,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Keefe predicts a win in New York. Next letter: he calls himself a matchmaker, and repeats that the young woman has fallen for him without any encouragement.",
  "predicament": "A man tells a friend he is playing matchmaker, while insisting the person in question really wants him."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 855,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Dorgan, too timid to risk rejection, asks Keefe to write her a friendly letter boosting him and sounding her out; Keefe agrees and begins his letter.",
  "predicament": "A friend too shy to ask for himself begs a man to sound out the person he likes and put in a good word."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 856,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Keefe's 'boost' tells the young woman that Dorgan has not made good, may be traded, and has faults, being slow to throw and afraid of runners sliding in.",
  "predicament": "Asked to recommend a shy friend, a man writes a note that mostly lists the friend's failings and poor prospects."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 857,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "He adds that Dorgan earns little, that Keefe always pays for their beer, that the young man is like a kid brother, and that she could do worse than give him a date.",
  "predicament": "A man's supposed recommendation of a friend keeps drifting into his own generosity and the friend's modest earnings."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 858,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "He closes by telling her it is too late between them but they can be friends, asks her to keep the letter private and reply; he thinks he has killed two birds with one stone.",
  "predicament": "Writing on a friend's behalf, a man also lets the young woman down gently from an attachment she never had."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 859,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Keefe boasts of handling Ruth in Boston. Next letter: in Detroit, he expects to face Cleveland at home.",
  "predicament": "A man boasts to a friend about getting the better of a celebrated opponent, glossing over the moments that went wrong."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 860,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "The Detroit car seller says another buyer will pay cash, but out of fondness for Keefe he will hold the car a week for a $100 option.",
  "predicament": "A seller invents a rival buyer and a special fondness for a man, and talks him into paying just to wait."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 861,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Keefe pays the $100 option, assumes his wife will split the cost, and resolves she will never drive it; he declines a test drive, confident he can pick up driving like anything else.",
  "predicament": "A man commits money to a purchase counting on his wife to pay half, and has already decided she may not use it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 862,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Miss Mulvihill replies only 'Tell Mr. Dorgan the same thing I told you once, why don't he speak for himself'; Dorgan's face falls, and Keefe, still misreading it, hopes she will get over him.",
  "predicament": "A young woman's reply plainly invites a shy friend to speak up, but the man carrying messages reads it as about himself."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 863,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Keefe asks his wife to pay half the $1,200; she agrees only if the car is jointly owned and she can drive it, and he refuses, saying he would not trust her with a lawnmower.",
  "predicament": "A man asks his wife to pay half for something, then refuses her the equal share of it she asks for in return."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 864,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "She refuses to pay otherwise, and Keefe stubbornly gives up the car; in the game Gleason pinch-hits for him while he is losing, and Keefe insists he could have hit better himself.",
  "predicament": "Having lost a standoff at home out of stubbornness, a man is taken off at work and insists he would have done better."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 865,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Before the game, two Cleveland players confront Keefe with his boast that he would knock one of them out; he denies saying it, is called a liar, and one of them offers to settle it.",
  "predicament": "A man's idle boast about a rival reaches the rival, who confronts him, and he tries to deny he ever said it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 866,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Keefe backs off, telling himself they wanted him thrown out of the game, and offers to settle it at their hotel that night; he calls this outsmarting them.",
  "predicament": "Challenged over his own boast, a man backs down and tells himself it was the clever thing to do."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 867,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Trying to intimidate the two, Keefe gives up doubles to both, blaming a slip and his fielders; they ride him all game, and he never goes to their hotel, citing the baby's croup.",
  "predicament": "Trying to intimidate two rivals, a man gives them exactly what they wanted, and later finds a reason not to face them."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 868,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Dorgan has a date with Miss Mulvihill, which Keefe assumes she made to let him down. Next letter: Keefe wires the Detroit seller that he will buy the car after all, with others paying for most of it.",
  "predicament": "Having been refused the money at home, a man announces he will get what he wants anyway, at other people's expense."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 869,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Out drinking with a fight promoter and a crowd of flattering sporting men, Keefe is given what they present as inside information about the coming heavyweight fight.",
  "predicament": "Out late with flattering new acquaintances, a man is let in on what they call a sure secret."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 870,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "The tip is that the fight is fixed for the big champion to win so there can be a lucrative rematch, and that Keefe should bet heavily on him.",
  "predicament": "A man is told the outcome of a contest has been fixed in advance, and urged to bet everything on it."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 871,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "One of them offers a friend who will take any bet and accept Keefe's check; Keefe declines for now, hoping for better odds, and urges Al to bet quietly too.",
  "predicament": "Pressed to hand over money at once to a stranger's friend, a man hesitates, yet still passes the tip on as certain."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 872,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Back at the hotel, teammates scoff at the tip; goaded, Keefe bets them $600 even money on credit, planning to buy the car without his wife's money and keep it from her.",
  "predicament": "Goaded by colleagues who doubt his inside tip, a man stakes the whole sum he hoped to spend on a treat."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 873,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Keefe wins his game, grumbles at playing in a dry town on the last wet night before Prohibition, and envies Dorgan at home. Next letter, after the fight: 'good night car and good night everything'.",
  "predicament": "After staking everything on a sure thing, a man writes that it has all gone wrong."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 874,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "The champion lost; Keefe refuses to blame his tipsters, insists the winner double-crossed everyone, and says that without their advice he would have backed the younger man.",
  "predicament": "Having lost money on a tip, a man refuses to blame those who gave it, and insists he would have chosen right alone."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 875,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "No car now; he decides the car was a poor buy anyway, is relieved his wife does not know, demands the $100 option back, and loses three hits to a rookie.",
  "predicament": "After a costly loss, a man decides the thing he wanted was never worth it, and hides the whole affair from his wife."
 },
 {
  "chunk": 876,
  "story": 21,
  "summary": "Dorgan and Miss Mulvihill announce their engagement and thank Keefe; the ring was bought with Dorgan's winnings on the fight. Keefe says he is glad to be rid of her, and teammates start calling him 'Jess'.",
  "predicament": "The friend a man pitied wins both the prize and the person he wanted, while the man is left mocked by colleagues."
 }
]