Wilson and Doughty had been set up by their mutual manager, Jim Grant.

I also got to bat, coming to the plate with the bases loaded and the game on the line against Jim (Mudcat) Grant.

Spectacular catches are a good lure for spectators, but the tournament director, Jim Grant, believes such showmanship is often the result of a poorly thrown pass.

But Jim Grant, the founder and editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, has done better than most, at least on paper.

"We are all pretty satisfied that the growth is there," Jim Grant, vice president of Homart Development, said.

Jim Grant told me that that had been his experience, too.

I said to myself: 'Look here, Jim Grant, how many fruit cars have you handled over the years?'

When I looked at it that way," Jim Grant told me, "I felt pretty silly.

But Jim Grant has done better than most.

Jim Grant (born 29 October 1954), better known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British thriller writer.