On Fred Wilpon, owner of the New York Mets and longtime client of Bernie Madoff. When the Ponzi scheme was exposed, Wilpon’s company had more than 400 accounts and $500 million invested—he’s now being sued on behalf of the victims for enabling the scheme and may be forced to sell his beloved ballclub.

For decades, Wilpon has lived in the fraught and contentious worlds of New York real estate and professional sports and has had an enviable reputation: thoughtful, decent, philanthropic, even kind. But now, in the later innings of his life, he must rise to an unseemly challenge: to salvage his reputation and his fortune, Wilpon must prove that he was a dupe rather than a crook.