Chapter 13 contains a wonderfully clean oddity that does not require outside historical interpretation. The text says the treasure’s Jordan card is pictured on the previous spread, “page 112.” But Chapter 13 itself begins on page 116, and page 112 is still inside the Gold Rush chapter.
Quick Take
Analysis
The sports claim checks out
The chapter’s major statistical claim about Michael Jordan’s 1987–88 season is defensible. NBA records show he led the league in scoring and became the first player to win MVP and Defensive Player of the Year in the same season.
The page reference does not
On p. 118, the book explicitly directs readers to page 112 for the pictured card. The pagination makes that impossible as written. This is therefore a hard internal-reference error rather than a disputed historical interpretation.
And 007 appears again
The chapter also calls Jordan “basketball 007.” That is not an error, but it echoes Michael Scott’s 007 employee-number story from Chapter 1 and is worth logging as a cross-chapter oddity.
Deep Dive
Chapter 13 is valuable because it gives us a control: the impressive basketball fact is accurate, while the mundane page locator is wrong. That inversion is exactly why internal references deserve as much scrutiny as headline history.
Bottom Line
Verified: Jordan’s 1987–88 award/scoring feat. Wrong: page 112 reference. Odd echo: 007.
Sources & References
- NBA — Jordan’s 1987–88 scoring lead, MVP and Defensive Player of the Year.
Keep investigating
Open Question
If page 112 is not merely a typo, what is on that page that could justify sending a reader backward into Chapter 12?
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