First Part, Sections 4 through 7 Summary

4 - The night he and Bix met, Jerome writes, he was watching a team coached by his brother Maurice who was, Jerome comments, off to university to be a psychiatrist and continually practices analyzing people, including the members of his baseball team. Jerome describes how a team from the white league, sponsored by Seven Up, traditionally visits one of the teams in the black league at the beginning of the season, and how on the night of this particular visit, the black team plays well until a spectacular play by the white shortstop, Bix, sends the black team back to the bench.

5 - Jerome then describes how, in the middle of the game, a beautiful white woman showed up and began cheering for Bix who, Jerome comments, merely smiled politely. Jerome comments that he, along with everyone...