Manx Martin 1, Part 2, Chapters 1-4, pgs. 137-193 Summary

When Cotter arrives home, his sister accuses him of skipping school. He shows her the baseball and knows she will not tattle on him. They and their mother talk about the man preaching in the street and the fact that the Russians have tested an atomic bomb. His father, Manx Martin, arrives home and Cotter tells him that the super wants to talk to him.

Cotter tells his father that he needs a note excusing him from school and that he had gone to the baseball game. He shows him the baseball. Manx wants to see the baseball but Cotter wants to keep it. Cotter falls asleep thinking about the game. While he is sleeping, Manx takes the baseball.

Part Two covers the time span from the mid 1980s to the...