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.