Read the excerpt from “How I Learned English.” Ron O’Neill, Jim, Dennis, were talking it up In the field, a blue sky above them Tipped with cirrus. And there I was, Just off the plane and plopped in the middle Of Williamsport, Pa. and a neighborhood game, Unnatural and without any moves, My notions of baseball and America Growing fuzzier each time I whiffed. The first-person point of view in this excerpt helps readers understand how awkward the speaker feels playing baseball. how much all the boys enjoy playing baseball. how the speaker feels about the other boys. how the other boys feel about the speaker.