It is Friday, April 13, 1900, and Port Newton, a small town on San Francisco Bay, is down on its luck. Times have been changing and fewer and fewer of the big grain ships take on their cargo there. Worse, Old Man Newton, himself, embezzled money from his own savings and loan, and its doors have been padlocked. Port Newton's down-and-out citizens still have their own baseball team, as does every little town around the Bay, but the younger more athletic...