I thought long and hard about a 10 but decided on a 9 because I thought there might be a little too much detail in the baseball stuff for a non-fan. Well, Twilight zone time. I was reading the Sports section in the LA Times today and the trivia question was who was the first Angels pitcher to win 20 games. Dale Chance 1964. Of course, this caused my fevered brain to work overtime wondering if Hugh Chance could have been based somehow on a real player.
Time period is good.
Dale Chance must have played in the minors.