Winning Builds…Something Something

Differing personalities can periodically have unexpected effects on a clubhouse. Sometimes they are complimentary, and other times they...well, other times they break their hand punching a concrete wall or get injured "washing their truck". Still, it can't all be magic, can it? Are there some elements of a team that can be scientifically isolated and proven? Yours Truly was testing a hypothesis, but the secret laboratory was left in disarray when I fled the country following the previous VORP puzzle debacle. See if you can run the numbers and recreate my findings based on the items that were abandoned on the table in the rush.

• A medical journal from the year Watson and Crick made their famous discovery. (date)
  
• A novel featuring the adventures of an Assyrian-American WWII bombardier. (title)
  
• A 8x10 glossy of the Pope, signed "To Mr. C - Keep up the good work!" (ordinal)
  
• A set of architectural plans for the top floor of the Empire State Building. (ordinal)
  
• A copy of the official MLB rule book from the first year the DH was used. (date)
  
• Edmond Halley's Synopsis Astronomia Cometicae. (time)
  
• A psychological treatise on the origins and causes of triskaidekaphobia. (numeral)
  
• A Torah. (count)
  
• The transcript of the Quayle/Gore/Stockdale Vice-Presidential debate. (date)
  
• A guitar tab from the Beatles' "White Album". (title)
  
• The infamous inaugural address of the first president to die in office. (ordinal)
  
• The book Lost Moon by Kluger and Lovell. (title)
  
• Eliot Asinof's baseball scandal retrospective. (title)
  

The answer to the puzzle is a current Dodger. Comment freely in the thread, but if you have the solution, please don't give it away to everyone in the comments section. Instead, do the following:

• email me with the first and last name of the Dodger who is the answer, along with your reasoning (answers arrived at via luck or the wrong reasoning, even if correct, count for participation credit only). Please include your screen name somewhere in the email.
• Post a comment simply saying you have emailed your solution attempt. I may not be able to reply to your original email promptly, so please be patient and check back on the comment thread for the latest news; I may confirm correct answers there.

You have until 11pm PT tonight to submit your answer. Solution will be posted tomorrow. Good luck!

Hint 1: Clues to the first step in the solution are highlighted in blue. Once you have "run the numbers on the table" you'll need to convert them somehow into a coherent message.

Hint 2: Added a clarification after each the clues for step 1.

Hint 3: Highlighted additional clues in the description that might be helpful for step 2. The title is also a hint regarding step 2.