In the Back to the Future franchise, the DeLorean Time Machine, is a time travel device, made possible by retro-fitting a DMC DeLorean vehicle, with a flux capacitor. The car required, 1.21 gigawatts of power and needed to travel too 88 miles per hour, (142 km/h) to initiate time travel.. If you are looking for the modern day equivalent, then it lies in something, that Back To The Future did not predict, which, is the Internet.!! So, why is the Internet and this Grays Sports Almanac, so important. A quick cursory glance at any online "Sport's Website", seems to feature all the information, you'd ever want, even if you were interested in going all the way back to 1936. Well, we are, but we're not after sport's statistics..!!!
"Biff opened the safe. He pulled a box off the center shelf, then dug a key out of his pocket and unlocked the box. He grinned and pulled the Sports Almanac out for Marty to see. Marty had to admit it: "the book didn't look like much, unless you knew what it was" — especially now that it had seen thirty years, of wear and tear. The dust jacket was gone, the pages were worn and turning yellow, there were even a couple of what looked like mustard stains on the spine."
— From Back to the Future Part II.
"You see this book? This book tells the future. Tells the results of every major sports event, till the end of this century".
— Old Biff. Discussing the Grays Sports Almanac, with his younger self, in 1955.
"In planning to acquire your share of the riches, let no one influence you to scorn the dreamer. To win the big stakes in this changed world, "you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past", whose dreams have given to civilisation, all that it has of value, the spirit which serves as the life-blood of our own country - your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents". — Think & Grow Rich. Napoleon Hill. (Atkinson Beals, Personal Power, or Master Self, 1922. by Edward Beals).