Each year between april and october millions of baseball fans head out to fields across
america to watch their favorite teams compete against each other. but how and when did baseball become recognized as the national sport of the united states.
to engage the reader, the author

The author end the paragraph with a question to make the reader wonder how baseball became the national sport of the United States.

To engage the reader, the author ends the paragraph with the question "But how and when did baseball become recognized as the national sport of the United States?"

Explanation:

By using a question at the end of the paragraph, the author makes the reader wonder how baseball became recognized as the national sport of the United States. This is a technique used to capture the reader's attention because it is engaging and it provokes the reader's curiosity.

the answers are:

1. dolores driscoll - b. first person minor

dolores is a minor character who happens to be driving the bus at the time of the accident. she narrates picking up each of the children and her last memory is the children being thrown around the bus.

2. billy ansel - a. first person major

billy loses his twins in the accident. he tells his own story, how he witnessed the accident and how he tried to the rescuers. he is a major character, as he is at the center of the story.

3. mitchell stephens - c. first person observer

mitchell enters the story after the accident. he is a lawyer who learns about the accident based on other characters observations. though he tells the story from a first person perspective, he is just an observer.

as for matcthing the message or lesson posted with the person who said them:

1."obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. i'm an optimist basically who acts like a pessimist. on principle. just in case." - dolores driscoll

2. "i could no longer believe even in life. . for me now the only reality was death." - billy ansel

the narrator is saying that the old lady made her feel uncomfortable. you know this because they say "i found that rather irksome", "perhaps it was her being so upright and trim", and "i don't think it was that, because i thought that quaintly pleasant." hope this !