Nonfiction Reading Packet A

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Across
  1. 5. To accept an idea, attitude, belief, so that it becomes part of your character
  2. 7. former manager of the Yankees
  3. 9. An event that delays your progress or reverses some of the progress that you have made
  4. 12. Marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen
  5. 13. The player position in baseball for defending the infield area on the third-base side of second base
  6. 16. Be stronger, better armed, or more skillful than
  7. 17. Traveling toward a particular point
  8. 20. A house occupied by a club or used for club activious
  9. 23. former Yankees player and coach
  10. 24. Derek's sister
  11. 25. general manager of Yankees during much of Jeter's career
  12. 26. A baseball player stationed at one of four defensive infield positions on the baseball field, between the first base and the third base
  13. 30. To criticise or speak in an angry manner to someone
  14. 31. outfielder who koined the Yankees later in Jeter's career
Down
  1. 1. Having parents or ancestors from different racial or ethnic backgrounds
  2. 2. Derek's father
  3. 3. A batted baseball hit in a nearly straight line usually not far above the ground
  4. 4. Determined to do something and refuses to give up, even if what they are doing is unpleasant or cruel
  5. 6. Out of keeping or place; unbecoming
  6. 8. Either of two low shelters on either side of a baseball diamond where the players and coaches sit during the game
  7. 10. Taking place after the end of the regular season
  8. 11. A boy whose job is to take care of equipment that belongs to a baseball team
  9. 14. Secondary author
  10. 15. Derek's first girlfriend
  11. 18. Feeling, displaying or reflecting listlessness or discouragement
  12. 19. Derek's mother
  13. 21. Regularly or repeatedly doing or practicing something or acting in some manner
  14. 22. the late owner of the Yankees
  15. 27. Break up into small parts, typically as the result of impact or decay
  16. 28. primary author of the book
  17. 29. a teammate and first baseman known for his clutch hitting