, who had coached him at wilson high school, and jim whitt had taken a certain -- had a sympathy with dan white, because dan white lost his father under very humiliate circumstances when he was about 15, 16 years old. and he was a little bit lost and he was a little bit angry, and jim whitt saw him as a standup guy and made him the captain of the baseball team, and one day jim whitt told me, he gave dan white the bunt sign. he asked dan white to bunt. and dan white knew the signs. he was the captain of the team. instead he ignored it and hit away, and after the inning, when he came into the bench, jim whitt said to him, dan, why did you do that? i gave you the bunt sign. and dan white's response was to pull off his jersey, throw it down, stomp on it, and walk off the field and he never came back and played for that team again. that was an important story to me because it told me something. it told me dan white was a quitter. and now when i looked at his career, i saw a very different career. i didn't see a guy moving through a sears reof leadership positions. i saw a guy cutting and r