Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.0
Points
14.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
81334
Points per Word
0.000172
Page Count
273
Points per Page
0.051282
Description
Matthew McGough was a fairly typical teenager, obsessed with getting through high school, girls, and baseball. In the fall of 1991, he wrote a letter asking for a position as a bat boy with the New York Yankees. Miraculously he did get the job.