The world of sports is as life itself. The Chicago Cubs team after a strange year for baseball and the world at large, is now embarked on building something from yesterday's success, forgetting past failures and starting all over again. That's the way of our lives as well.

We watch the game for the excitement but even more so for the drama of each game. Baseball athletes are great models of hard work, dedication,

perseverance, picking themselves up when they fail and taking each game and each event one moment at a time. I have tried to capture this in showing the many facets of a professional, baseball club and its athletes on and off the ?eld of play. They are a model for of us as we move along on the road of life. Baseball is life played out on a baseball diamond. This tale is a story of the world, of baseball and above all you and me.