It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.
You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.