This concept leaped out at me so early in the process, and was so tantalizingly simple, that it made me uncomfortable. I had only started my research, and I didn’t believe that the secret component of the world’s greatest sports teams could be so easy to spot. Beyond this, I couldn’t understand how one member of a team could lift it so high and keep it there for so long. I thought of something H. L. Mencken once wrote: “There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.”
