As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.