Reading Skills

In my new book Heat by Mike Lupica some predictions that I have is that the main character Michael will eventually make it to the majors.  One question I have about this book so far is it says is he has no mother.  But where is his mother?  One text to text connection I have is the narrative that I wrote this year in english because they are both about baseball.  One text to world connection is that America's past-time is baseball and thats what what this book is about.  One text to self connection that I have is that I used to play baseball when I was younger.