Jenkins took up golf at age 8, on a nine-hole course with oiled-sand greens near his working-class home on the SouthSide, and came of age just as Nelson and Hogan were hitting their stride.
Yet Don Cooper, the best pitching coach in baseball and arguably the key to Mr. Guillen's success on the SouthSide, doesn't show up until near the end of the book and then only in the context of petty office politics.