What it Takes tells the story of baseball and how the characteristics needed to succeed in the sport parallels those needed to succeed in life. It begins with Big Eddy Dillinger, a greedy and disillusioned owner of the Chicago Cubs who is tired of seeing his players fail to make him the profit he believes he deserves. Dillinger makes a ridiculous statement that anyone with the proper training could hit .200 in the majors, trying to prove that his players aren’t special. This leads to an argument and an eventual ill-advised bet forcing Dillinger to bring in a kid off the street to play for his Cubs. He chooses Jacob Riley, a sheepish 23 year old who has all the tools to succeed in life without the proper mindset to use them. Jacob accepts the challenge, not knowing the wager that was placed on his potential abilities.
Jacob struggles, despite some raw talent and the ability to find some loopholes in the system. He realizes that he will need to play the game like nobody else has ever done before in order to have limited success and keep his whole team, not to mention the whole city, from running him out of town. With just the right intuition, and some inner strength he never knew was there, Jake begins to figure out the game and how he can control it. He also realizes that the temperament needed is not just helpful in him having success in baseball but in the problems he faced well before the nefarious bet was made. Jake learns the importance of living out every minute to its full potential and how doing this might not just help him figure out life but could also lead the Cubs to another magical season.
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