Moonshot

Dan Velacruz, New York Times

“When Stern did that, it broke the cardinal rule of sports. You don’t mess with your teammate’s wife.

And you certainly don’t punch the guy after messing with his wife.

That put Stern on everyone’s radar. No one expected him to go to New York.

But we expected someone to snatch him up.

Nobody who bats four hundred is going to go unclaimed.

And that summer, he was the hottest name in the game. ”