- Father and the Boy go to see the New York Giants play under their legendary manager, John McGraw.
- Father remembers the gentlemanly baseball games he played at Harvard. He feels annoyed at the game and his memories. Meanwhile he watches a fool (a mascot for the Giants). The boy catches a fly ball and returns the ball to the fool, whose name is Charles Victor Faust.
- Later, we're told, the players will become bored with Faust. No longer a good luck charm for the team, he'll be sent off to an insane asylum, where he'll die months later.