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World Series-winning baseball manager Joe Maddon talks about the need for more African American players, how big data has undermined baseball and why rebellion can lead to an authentic life.

So I’m reading “The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas,” Gal Beckerman’s excellent new book on the modest roots of massive sea changes, and the butterfly effect-like flutter of a parlor game forms in my head. I make leaps of logic that, though overly tidy, are compelling.