On Becoming Extraordinary: The Content and Structure of the Developmental Networks of Major League Baseball Hall of Famers
通过分析62位棒球名人堂入选者的演讲，发现首次投票即入选者拥有更大、更多样化的发展网络，并获得更多元的社会支持，从而提出非凡职业成就的理论模型。
We explore the structure and content of developmental networks depicted in 62 National Baseball Hall of Fame induction speeches to identify which developers and what support mattered most to inductees' career achievement. Our analysis illustrates two new support subfunctions (“freedom and opportunity for skill development” and “inspiration and motivation”) and shows that first-ballot inductees had larger, more diverse developmental networks featuring greater multiplexity and more single-function ties, plus greater supplementary psychosocial and complementary career support from a wider range of core and peripheral career communities, than later-ballot inductees. We conclude with a theoretical model of extraordinary career achievement.