The first time Jeff Luhnow returned to St. Louis as general manager of the Houston Astros, he had Chinese food for his pregame meal at Busch Stadium. He opened a fortune cookie and was struck by the wisdom of the words inside: “You will obtain your goal if you maintain your course.”
Luhnow taped the slip of paper to his eyeglasses case and has looked at it every day since. The message encapsulates the convictions that have sustained him in a sometimes rocky journey from the business world to baseball.
“You don’t want to be stubborn; you want to accept new information and feedback,” Luhnow said.