This Is the Story of How I Clawed My Way to the Middle. Some would say I pulled a rabbit out of a hat, making the leap from deep in the woods of Oregon to some of the biggest companies in the world, and then into one of the best jobs there at that. But I heard someone say you can't pull a rabbit out of a hat unless you put one in there first, so this is also the story of how my rabbit got into the hat, and what the trick was to pulling it out....But before the big leagues came the B Leagues. This is where my story begins.