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Stu Sternberg and his Wall Street cohorts didn’t set out to change baseball, it just worked out that way

ST. PETERSBURG — You are 20-something years old, working a Wall Street job you never really wanted. You have a friend who just quit his job at Goldman Sachs with dreams of publishing a novel.

Your friend knows a guy with money and wants to set up a meet. So you both take the train out of Manhattan and head 45 minutes south to Mamaroneck Diner and Pizza.

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An hour and a half later, none of your lives will be the same.