So somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew this was a book. I saw the movie about a dozen or more times as a kid, the one with Richard Pryor and John Candy, where Brewster is a minor-league baseball player, learns that he has a dead uncle who leaves him $300 million under the contract that he must first spend $30 million in 30 days. He runs for president, he hires the Yankees to play his ball club, he invests in icebergs, and […]