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每年都有價值幾十億的珍貴寶石出土，但最珍稀的寶石從未出現在公開市場上，這時就是美國最狂熱的寶石獵人唐恩柯根出馬的時候了。柯根是"寶石家公司"的執行長，更是業界的傳奇人物。他專門到地球上最危險、最目無法紀的地區尋找珍稀寶石，他要和時間賽跑找到寶石，隨時都要搶先對手一步。《寶石獵人》記錄柯根和他的團隊真實的冒險過程。
Chapman and Maclain Way’s energetic telling of one of baseball’s great, unheralded stories is as much about independent spirit as it is about the game. When Portland, Oregon, lost its longtime minor-league affiliate, Bing Russell—who briefly played ball professionally before enjoying a successful Hollywood acting career—bought the territory and formed a single-A team to operate outside the confines of major-league baseball. When they took the field in 1973, the Mavericks—the only independent team in America—started with two strikes against them. What did Deputy Clem from Bonanza know about baseball? Or Portland, for that matter? The only thing uniting his players, recruited at open tryouts, was that no other team wanted them. Skeptics agreed that it could never work.
But Bing understood a ballplayer’s dreams, and he understood an audience. His quirky, unkempt castoffs won games, and they won fans, shattering minor-league attendance records. Their spirit was contagious, and during their short reign, the Mavericks—a restaurant owner turned manager, left-handed catcher, and blackballed pitcher among them—brought independence back to baseball and embodied what it was all about: the love of the game.
- J.N.
