You are standing on the grass, right in the middle of Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Oh, right before the earthquake. It's game three of the World Series. The atmosphere is just thick with that, you know, that specific kind of electric tension you only get at a championship game.

It's the peak era of a casino showroom. And Larry is just walking through the casino, completely off the clock, when a famous country singer named Dottie West spots him. But she doesn't flag him down because she recognizes him from the Imperials. No, she stops him because she is convinced he's the prominent songwriter Mickey Newberry.

• A famous country vocal group steps up to the microphones to sing the national anthem
• I am thrilled to jump into this because we are looking at the incredibly twisted, expectation -defying story of Larry Gatl ...