Why does grayson feel good

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April 8, Joe Ford. How'd he end up here, anyway? That's the million-dollar question. Grayson isn't just any sad old guy you might meet at the bus stop. He is—not was—a baseball player. He may not have had a lot of glory, but he toiled away in minor leagues for more than two decades, "winding up in some hot tamale league in Guanajuato, Mexico, until his curveball could no longer bend around so much as a chili pepper and his fastball was slower than a senorita's answer" Now if that isn't love of the game, we really don't know what is.

But why does the fact that he has a history playing baseball matter so much? Because it gives him an identity he can cling to, when he really doesn't have a whole lot else going for him. And—important for Maniac—it gives him something to teach. We know Maniac is an orphan. But Grayson shows that there's more than one way to be abandoned than through a tragic accident: his parents abandoned him by being drunk and neglectful; his teacher abandoned him by whispering where he could hear, "This bunch will never learn to read a stop sign'" Grayson is on his own because those who should have cared for him failed him.

Wait—that sounds familiar. This is basically the same thing. So, Grayson's background is really similar to Maniac's. He took off on his own when he was just 15 and struggled to find his own way through life.