- The baseball season usually runs from February to October and that's the beginning of spring training to the World Series.
- During the 1990 series the Red Sox were finally in the position to trade in the middle of the season who could help them in the second half.
- There are a lot of terms in the book like 1.23 ERA and they sometimes are harder to understand.
- People found it odd that Garciaparra jumped right into the major league games.
- This told a lot about the people who were on the team and how they reacted and worked there.
4 questions
- Why does the baseball season run from February to October?
- Why in baseball do all players have to be compared to each other?
- Why does it seem like baseball players always even during the off season are very busy and are always having to focus on baseball?
- Why if you are only in the minor leagues are you not even compared to the major leagues if you are just as good?
3 vocabulary
- tangible: having physical existence
- abysmal: bad or severe
- bigotry: stubborn and complete intolerance
2 literary
- Its going back to the 1997 and then starts to talk about that season and on from there.
- "he wanted to be a star" metaphor (pg 54)
1 overview
- This chapter had a lot of things about trading players, like how they decided to trade the players and who they thought were going to be better for the team and who wouldn't be good for the team.
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