Setting the stage -- Baseball and science surface -- College -- Graduate school and the 1960s computer -- Industrial synthetic chemist -- Harvard's research computer -- Computer-aided drug discovery -- Sabermetrics' infancy -- Scientific recognition -- Twists of fate -- Birth of stats inc -- White Sox and Yankees -- Scientific career transition -- Rebirth of stats inc -- Comparative molecular field analysis -- Stats soars -- Cheerlessness and Lyme disease -- The rise and fall of TRPS -- Repudiated by stats -- Tidying up -- In my humble opinion -- Summing up.