Washed up and now former classic rock disc jockey Bill "Cannonball" Cafferty heads out to Western Nebraska to go on an adventure with a group of students from Sand Hills State College. He was the only media credential they could get to bite on a story nobody would believe. A physics major at the school figured out why celebrities die in threes and the gang is trying to stop the greatest Major League Baseball prospect in a hundred years from dying on opening day of Double A baseball season.