Yet Don Cooper, the best pitching coach in baseball and arguably the key to Mr. Guillen's success on the South Side, doesn't show up until near the end of the book and then only in the context of petty office politics.
Lake Highlands coach Jay Higgins is the longest-serving prep baseballcoach in Texas, having taken the job in 1967 (four years after the school opened), scored 783 wins and 25 state playoffs trips (including last year).