A career minor leaguer who bombed out of the majors finds success pitching in Japan after using HGH, bu the pressure of being a star leads Derek to attack women despite a loving wife who he can't perform with. Abused as a child by both a domineering mother as well a camp counselor he' s rendered impotent with the opposite sex, but had to resort to selling himself to other men at times to support himself and his family. He forsakes the sports reporter, Gene, in Ohio who helped publicize Derek to the scouts and retaliates by putting a curse on him after Derek returns home to star for the New York Yankees in the American league pennant race as he continues to stalk and kill prostitutes despite the intervention of federal authorities and Interpol after cover ups by local law enforcement in Japan and across the United States because of Derek's fame only to have him chased to Cuba after he chokes in the playoffs and kills another in Puerto Rico. A sting operation goes bad involving a Cuban expatriate, also a killer, given immunity where Derek is allowed to live out his life in peace. exiled with his wife, artificially conceived child and mother in law in peace the baseball crazed Castro administration.