then walked into the J&L hiring office. Western PA and working-class tradition always held that a man stepped up when he got a girl pregnant. You were no longer free to do as you pleased. But Dorsett didn’t see it that way. His best opportunity to support the mother and child was to achieve his professional goals—not marry a girl he wasn’t committed to and abandon his God-given gifts to take a job at the steel mill. He wasn’t going to ruin his life to please other people.
Player as storyline.
