There is, certainly, a great movie to be made about a young baseball player from the islands or South America who enters an American-run baseball academy, gets a tryout with a minor-league franchise, suffers the cultural dislocations of American wealth and strangeness, and then, on the verge of success, hits a rock somewhere and capsizes before he can get to the majors.
Schultz hired Donald to run Starbucks' North American operations in 2002, with the understanding that the job would be a tryout for the chief executive position.