The End: 42, 43, 44

Jeremiah Hoffereene starves himself to make weight and cuts too much to win.  When he doesn't make weight for conference, the coach confides in his own rivals about his team woes.  Paco has had enough of adults abusing his friends.

Paco hears the rattling of ice as his ma has taken out her jingle dress to dance again.  The sound awakens him from a dream where Laughs a Lot appeared and asked him to dance for him at the Gathering of Nations pow wow.  Paco meets his two spirit cousin, Hawk's grandson, who is a fancy dancer and takes all night to teach Paco how to dance.  He shows Paco pictures of his two spirit grandpa who is a spitting image of Paco's drawings of Baseball Man.

Paco returns from his memories and finds himself in his old bedroom just before the sun comes up and it's time to go out for a run the day of his first pro baseball game against Chicago.