Scooter (post # 2)

"I never saw the pitch. From the time it left his fingers, i shut my eyes completely. Shut my eyes . . . and swung. And heard a telltale crack echo through the park. I still have no idea how my feeble swing found my fathers pitch"(56).

This is the first time in the book it talks about Scooter playing baseball. There has been many times the author talks about the Yankees. When they go get an autograph for his granfather, it was what his dad loved. How his dad watches the games on t.v. and when they go to the Mets game. Scooter named after a Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto is just a regular kid growning who lives next to the Yankee stadium.

When Scooter hits the ball i feel happy for him. His dad was always a good baseball player nad the first two pitches made him look like and idiot. Scooter didn't even swing at the first two pitches because he couldn't see the pitch all he could do were hear the seems spinning right past him. Even if it was luck it still gives you a good feeling. Everyone gets lucky some time, so it's best to get lucky than not to. The feeling didn't lat long when Scooter was thrown out at home, everything that he had worked for was all gone. Only 359 feet of glory and 1 foot of pure sadness. I think that Scooter and his dad will have a different relationship throughout the rest of the book. Would it be a good thing or a bad thing?