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Meeting of main characters
Seth was walking home from school one day, and saw Jimmy for the first time. Jimmy was playing baseball -
Seth plays baseball for the first time
Jimmy saw Seth walking home, and asked him if he wanted to play baseball with him and his dad the next morning. -
Professional baseball game
Jimmy asks Seth if he wants to go to a Major League Baseball game with him and his Father. -
Jimmy's dad gets drunk
At the baseball game, Jimmy's dad has a few too many beers and drives the boys home drunk. He yells at the boys all the way home. -
Jimmy's parents get a divorce
Jimmy's mom was getting sick and tired of having a drunk husband. She notices that Jimmy does not like having a drunk father and that he is always being mean to Jimmy. So they get a divorce. -
Seth talks about his dad for the first time
Seth tells Jimmy about how his dad died of a heart attack in a hotel room many years ago, and how he can relate of not having a father around the house. -
Jimmy and Seth are on different teams
Little League baseball starts up and jimmy and Seth both find out that they are on different teams. -
Jimmy is moving out of town
Jimmy tells Seth that his mom is renting out the house and that they are going to go live with their grandmother, because they can not stand seeing their dad with his new girlfriend. -
Seth gets good grades in school
Seth realizes that if he wants to play baseball he has to have good grades, so he goes from a C student to an A student. -
Jimmy asks Seth to play on his team
Jimmy says that Seth can come play baseball for his new school, even though that is cheating. -
Jimmy moves back
Jimmy and his mom move back to where they came from because the father left the city as well. -
Jimmy and Seth play baseball again at the school
Jimmy and Seth go back to the school field and their is a Senior in High School and he took the boys too his hideout where he drinks, does drugs, and hang out with women. Jimmy and Seth both refuse to take them but eventually start drinking. -
Seth goes to Jimmy's house
Seth goes to Jimmy's house and when he gets there, Jimmy is drinking beer and then Seth begins to drink also. They drink about 4 beers a person and get really sick. -
Seth starts thinking
Seth believes that drinking is wrong when his mother found out that he was drunk, he stops but Jimmy doesn't. -
Jimmy plays varsity
Jimmy starts playing varsity and is the biggest star on the team. -
Jimmy gets caught
Jimmy gets caught drinking with his friends the week of playoffs, so he gets suspended and has to sit out of the game. -
Jimmy keeps drinking
Jimmy keeps drinking with the guys, and eventually stops caring about his school work and starts failing his classes. -
Jimmy gets in a car accident
Late at night after practice, jimmy had been drinking and drove his car right into a tree and was rushed to the hospital. -
Seth arrives at hospital
Seth gets to hospital and finds out that Jimmy is dead from the crash.