5,4,3,2,1 organizer pgs. 220-256 epilogue

5 Comments

• Mike Lowell had a baseball themed dinner with President Bush, The First Lady, six other players and Tito.
  
• During the off-season Mike Lowell re-signed with the Red Sox's
  
• Mike Lowell when re-signing thought that he could get a 3 year 30 million dollar deal.
  
• Mike Lowell's mothers name is Beatriz and she was a big help throughout all of Mike Lowell's life.
  
• In Mike Lowell's acknowledgements he had a lot of people to thank for helping him.
  

4 Questions

• Do the people on the team have any say in if they want to go to a certain team or not?
  
• Was it weird going and having dinner with the President and The First Lady?
  
• Does all the attention that they are getting after winning the World Series go to their head or do they know they are going to have to go right back out there again next year and do all this work again?
  
• Do the players always have to re-sign or could they just decide to stop playing the sport?
  

3 Vocabulary

• aback: used only i taken back surprised
  
• euphoria: feeling of well being
  
• embarked: to go aboard a ship; begin start
  

2 Literary

• This also had a lot of things that his family and other people had ever done for him.
  
• There was acknowledgements to who Mike Lowell had to thank through his life for what they had done for him.
  

1 Overview

• This was about the people that Mike Lowell wanted to thank people for, and about how he resigned to the Red Sox's after they had won the World Series and how he went to the White House.
  

5,4,3,2,1 organizer 160-220

5 Comments

• During a game with Baltimore Mike Lowell took a fast ball to the head but was fine and made it out with a bump on the head.
  
• After he got the bump in the head he made an imaging play to catch a ball and make and out.
  
• Mike Redmond was one of Mike Lowell's best friends in the game.
  
• It must be really hard to keep switching teams because you make good friends with someone and then you have to leave and not see them for awhile, or until your teams face each other.
  
• His journal entry for October 29, 2007 it only said unbelievable.
  

4 Questions

• If someone gets hit during a game by a pitch from a pitcher what happens to the pitcher?
  
• Why does everyone think that they should describe life as a roller coaster ride?
  
• Do they Red Sox's enjoy having Mike Lowell on the team and do they think that it was a good idea to take him and put him on the team?
  
• Was there ever a time between Mike Lowell and his wife that they thought that they were going to breakup.
  

3 Vocabulary

• mercilessly: showing no mercy
  
• incumbent: resting as a duty; holder of an office
  
• diminutive: tiny
  

2 Literary

• They showed some of a small conversations only about 2 lines on page 167.
  
• This was really him telling the story and things that had happened to him or that he had done in life.
  

1 Overview

• This was about the '03 season Mike Lowell spent with the Red Sox's and how they had won the World Series.
  

5,4,3,2,1 organizer pgs. 122-160

5 comments

• In November of '91 Bertica and Mike Lowell went on their first date.
  
• Mike Lowell seemed to be really good at giving advice because when his teammate Jon Lester got sick he gave him good advice to focus on himself and not worry about what people are doing around him.
  
• He is still writing in his journal but he isn't doing it as much as he would have liked to.
  
• Mike Lowell's grandmother passed away August 1, 1995 from lymphoma.
  
• After four months of being married in 1999 Mike Lowell found out he had cancer.
  

4 Questions

• Is it really hard for baseball players to have an at home life because they seem to be on the road or away so much.
  
• Is it really hard for players to find time for themselves never mind a family or friends but just for themselves?
  
• Was it really really hard for Mike Lowell's family to find out that he had cancer?
  
• If there are a lot of good players on the team and they all did extremely well that season how to they pick a MVP?
  

3 Vocabulary

• chemotherapy: use of drugs in treating disease
  
• catheter: tube put into the bladder
  
• subsequently: following
  

2 Literary

• Throughout the whole book Mike Lowell was putting in pages from his journal that he had been writing in.
  
• There were four pages full of pictures of Mike Lowell and his family.
  

1 Overview

• This told how Mike Lowell helped talk to his teammates when they found out bad news and also about when he found out that he had cancer.
  

5,4,3,2,1 organizer pgs 100-122

5 Comments

• When he was 15 years old he was benched for most of the season so he switched schools.
  
• "If you don't have playing time, it's because you don't deserve the playing time" (pg. 101, Lowell) This was a good quote because it's true if you like something then you make time for it.
  
• Mike Lowell went to Gables high school after he begged his parents to let him go.
  
• His dad had to talk to the athletic director so that Mike Lowell could get on the baseball team at Gables.
  
• During his junior year he got to be on the varsity team.
  

4 Questions

• Why would people let people become part of a team if they were going to bench them for the whole season?
  
• Why do parents remove kids from schools and make them switch schools?
  
• Is playing sports in high school supposed to help you to become a pro when you get older?
  
• Did it make a big deal what college or high school he went to, to play baseball?
  

3 Vocabulary

• envision: imagine
  
• aspirations: ambitions
  
• increments: an increasing ; amount of this
  

2 Literary

• "With less than 150 pounds behind me,"
  
• This was a lot of information about Mike Lowell's younger years and where he went to school and played sports.
  

1 Overview

• This chapter or part of the book was about some of the schooling that Mike Lowell went through and how his family helped him through it.
  

5,4,3,2,1 organizer pgs.80-100

5 Comments

• When he was 6 he used to play t-ball, and he was a short-stop.
  
• Since Mike Lowell was born his family knew he was going to be a baseball player.
  
• His Dad used to take him to the park to practice hitting and the one rule was that he had to swing at every ball that was thrown.
  
• For awhile he lost interest in the game but after a while his love for the game came back and he started to play the game again.
  
• Mike Lowell played for the New York Yankees.
  

4 Questions

• Why was Mike Lowell traded around to so many different teams?
  
• Why do in the game of baseball do they trade members of the team after they had been together for so long?
  
• Do most players get aggravated with the game and everyone making a big deal out of it so they are no longer able to play?
  
• How come all Dad's want their sons to became these major league baseball players?
  

3 Vocabulary

• predestined: determined before hand
  
• improbable: unlikely
  
• fended: ward off
  

2 Literary

• During these pages they showed a lot of not quotes but like things people said.
  
• The book has kind of stopped going in chronological order and is now kind of jumping around in his life.
  

1 Overview

• This was about how his dad helped him while he was learning the game of baseball and how it was always said that he would grow up to be a baseball player, also it was how he had a time when he really did lose his interest in the game of baseball.
  

5,4,3,2,1 organizer pgs. 60-80

5 comments

• At one point in the game season Mike Lowell became very superstitious and what ever he did the day before and they one he would do it again.
• It told how in the first game in '07 Mike Lowell struck out.
• It was a lot about how Mike Lowell was a kid and was playing sports like mini flashbacks.
• When Mike Lowell and his wife go to New York his wife always wants to give the poor $20.
• It sounds like all the players have a good joking around with each other on the team.

4 Questions

• When switching teams does it make playing more complex?
• Do all players really go through a bad spell where they don't do very good in the game?
• Does being a Major league baseball player have a lot of stress added.
• Why was Mike Lowell so worried after he struck out in the first inning.

3 Vocabulary

• momentum: fore or speed of action
• adulation: to show excessive admiration
• incomprehensible: impossible to understand

2 Literary

• The book shows a lot of dialogue that has been said in the past between Mike Lowell and his wife.
• This book also explains things with very strong and good detail.

1 Overview

• The part of the book I just read was about how people do when they were hitting and how Mike Lowell did when he was hitting and how he felt about his job at bat and things like that.

5,4,3,2,1 organizer pg. 40-60

5 comments

• It told how his grandfather escaped from Puerto Rico and they had to live with 15 people in a 3 bedroom one bathroom apartment.
• Mike Lowell met his wife in Miami.
• Mike Lowell says that during the ’07 spring training he kept thinking of something his family told him and that’s to always stay true to yourself and the goal you set for yourself.
• It was really hard for Dice-k and Okie when they first came to the Red Sox because they couldn’t speak very good English.
• Mike Lowell promised himself he would write in his journal one a month and he has a lot to say about his kids.
  
  4 Questions
  
• Does it help Mike Lowell to think about his family before a big game or does it make it worse if it’s an away game?
• Do all players on any sport team have a saying or something to help them remember home or does it just make it harder for them?
• When did Mike Lowell get married and when were his kids born?
• Did it help Mike Lowell to be able to speak both English and Spanish while being on the team?
  3 Vocabulary
  
• Extradited: to give up to another state, nation or authority
• Subsequently: occurring or coming later or after
• Circumvent: to go around or bypass
  2 Literary
  
• So far this whole book has been written in chronological order.
• This book has also done a lot of flashbacks like telling what happened to his family before.
  
  1 Overview
  
• This was mainly an introduction to how Mike Lowell’s family got here and how it was the same way for his wife’s family, also how when he came to the Red Sox’s how he grew to know them.
  
  
  

5,4,3,2,1 organizer pgs. 26-40

5 comments

• They call the hitting coach Ron " Papa Jack".
• Mike Lowell was on the Florida Marlins with Kevin Millar who came to the Red Sox's and filled Mike Lowell's head tales about how great it was to be on the Red Sox's and a professional baseball player in Boston.
• In 2005 Mike Lowell's performance and baseball skills started to go south.
• Donny helped Mike Lowell when his performance went down because he told him to pretend he was playing wiffle ball or little league because then he didn't care about where his hands and feet were now he was just a little bit to nervous.
• They called Terry Francona "Tito" and he really helped Mike Lowell with words of encouragement when he really needed it.

4 questions

• Why was this website becoming such a big deal with all the Red Sox and was telling so much about them?
• Why can players be really good but then when they get in the spotlight for the first time or change teams they just have a harder time?
• Why do all the players decide to give each other nicknames or cut their names down so that they are shorter.
• Why did Mike Lowell start to struggle a lot when he was really getting into his career he was starting to doubt himself.

3 vocabulary

• astray: out of the right way
• metamorphosis: a profound change in form one stage from another
• atrocities: the quality or state of being atrocious

2 literary

• "among a locker room full of characters from all corners of the globe" (pg. 36, Lowell) metaphor
• "when you go through what I did in '05," (pg.30, Lowell) He keeps going back to thinking about the '05 season and how terrible it was.

1 overview

• This was really about all the people that had helped Mike when he was going through this tough time and was worried about his hitting and some of these people were Donny, Terry Francona, and the hitting coach Ron.

5,4,3,2,1 organizer pgs. 5-26

5 comments

• Mike Lowell started playing baseball when he was eight years old.
• Mike Lowell got married to a woman named Bertica.
• The Red Sox's were forced to take Mike Lowell from the Florida Marlins when they wanted to get Josh Beckett.
• In the 2003 season Mike Lowell had 28 home runs in 98 games.
• He also has two kids a son, Anthony, and a daughter, Alexis.

4 questions

• What is Fibrous Dysplasia?
• Why when Josh Beckett was traded to the Red Sox were they forced to take Mike Lowell?
• Why did he decide to call his friend and old coach, Gary Denbo when his hitting in the game got bad?
• Why all of the sudden did his hitting get bad for a period of time?

3 vocabulary

• exemplified: to illustrate by example
• prototypical: original or model on which something is based on
• implementing: a tool used in doing work

2 literary

• "I stepped up to the plate against one of the most feared flamethrowers" (pg. 6, Lowell) metaphor
• "jumping up and down like we would at home plate after a walk-off home run." (pg. 13, Lowell) Simile

1 overview

• These first few sentences were about how Mike Lowell though that he had cancer, but it really turned out to be Fibrous Dysplasia, and how he and Josh Beckett were both switched from the Florida Marlins.

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