"A random coin toss made by an encyclopedia salesman. A mail-order Charles Atlas course. Two lazy alcoholic parents. A rich kid named Kaladi (sounds like potty). A secret love named Helen. All of these and a thousand other quirky things helped launch Adam Pitt into that rarified air where the ordinary becomes legendary. It was the early 1970's in Pittsville, Missouri--that awful, wondrous season in Americana when talented small-town athletes were "STUCK" facing serious decisions about war, death, and desertion"--back cover.