Chapter Four

Chapter four tells about when Josh's life started spiraling down hill and his struggles started. These problems began when he got his first tattoo which said, "Hammer." His parents didn't not like this decision to get a tattoo. Josh's mom believed that it was a bad omen for him to get a tattoo. It was not long before Josh had five tattoos on his arms, shoulders, and neck. This was something that not only surprised his parents, but it also shocked his teammates. Some of them could not believe that Josh would do something like this.

Josh now had problems other than the tattoos. One day when he and his parents were traveling down the road, a dump truck ran a red light and rammed into their truck. Josh was not seriously injured, but when the vehicles collided, something happened in his back. After this happened, Josh continuously had pain in his back whenever he would play baseball. Many people started to question whether or not he had the same desire to baseball as he once did.

All this was putting a lot of pressure on Josh, and he also began to wonder if he had the same desire to play baseball. Whenever he would want to get away from baseball, the pain in back and everything else bothering him, he would go to the tattoo parlor and get three or four tattoos at a time. Getting tattoos started to become an addiction for Josh. Sometimes he would spend almost the whole day sitting in a chair allowing someone to put countless tattoos on him. The pain in his back did not improve and it affected his play dramatically. All of these problems started causing many difficulties in his life..