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In chapter two, “The Names,” Bob makes public what the Bulls really call each other–“Pax,” “Scottie,” “Horace,” “Michael”–and uses the occasion to deny rumors that he’s known on the copy desk as “Old Raisin Thumb.”
In chapter three, “The Tactics Behind the Charm,” Bob talks with the Bulls beat writer from the Arlington Heights Herald and passes on the team’s deepest secret strategies: “On defense, they stick to a box-and-one zone or its complicated offshoot, the Ruy Lopez, while the backbone of their offense remains the famous ‘Pick ‘n’ Shovel’ play first chalked by basketball’s inventor, Dr. Abner Doubleday, during a break in the battle of Antietam.”
In chapter eight, “The Flight,” Bob joins the Bulls on their chartered plane for an away game in Milwaukee, but breaks into a cold sweat when he discovers that without a stewardess or anyone sitting next to him, there’s no one to talk to. This is the longest chapter in the book, and it’s vintage Bob.
