Last year Ted didn’t make the team; he was just too slow, and he didn’t have the strength to hit a good ball. This only made Ted work even harder to reach his dream of playing baseball. All his running and working out had paid off in other ways, too. He was in better shape than he had ever been in, he had put on muscle and there was not an ounce of fat on him. At 14 and only one day short of his fifteenth birthday he was in tiptop shape and on top of his game.
Ted was looking forward to his fifteenth birthday, his two best friends in the whole world, Todd and Taylor, were coming over for a sleep over, and he knew they would have a good time. They had lots planned for the night but were always updating their plans as new ideas crossed their minds.