A pre-crash (and pre-bankruptcy) profile of Dykstra, which also contained some hints of what was to come. A “successful day trader,” Dykstra was betting big on a new magazine called The Players Club that would doll out financial advice to retired athletes.

“You’ve got the ten per cent who are going to find their way no matter what,” Dykstra said of the athlete population. “And you get the ten per cent that are fuckheads no matter what—we’ll paste an ‘L’ to ’em.” The rest need guidance, and Dykstra, who will write a regular column called “The Game of Life,” is prepared to give it. “This will be the world’s best magazine,” he said.