was so hard to find really good information about Don is because there are no books on

him. The only real good source I had was the Internet, but that ended up being a good

thing, because the Internet ended up being a great source. It wasn't as easy as you might

The first thing I did was find all the information that I could find, and I found a

lot. I found information about his childhood. It talked about how he was the best player in

his little league and was always a higher level then his peers. The reason I didn't use this

was because it was boring and wasn't as important to want the purpose of my book. There

were many unimportant facts that I found about his childhood, that would have just been

boring to kids. I only found one fact about him in High School, that is that he played

basketball, baseball, and football. I thought this was perfect because it really showed what

a great athlete he was, and it was very interesting. I don't know any one in my school that

been like so much. And the way he helped the community, as I showed him signing

hits with 177 in 1980, he was named the New York Yankees Minor League Player of the

.343 he was the first Yankee left hander to hit over .340 since Mantle did it in '56, he had

League's Most Valuable Player after leading the league in batting with a .358 average and

leading), .324 batting average, and 35 home runs. This are the types of stats I have for

say them but they would have been meaningless and boring to kids. Some of the kids

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