Ted and Me (Baseball Card Adventure Series)

by Dan Gutman

Overview

With more than 1.5 million books sold, the Baseball Card Adventures series brings the greatest players in history to life!

Joe "Stosh" Stoshack has an incredible ability. He can travel through time using baseball cards. But the FBI has learned of his talent, and now they have a mission for him: go back to 1941 and warn President Roosevelt about the attack on Pearl Harbor!

Stosh is reluctant, until he finds out that his "ticket" to 1941 is a Ted Williams card. Williams was one of the greatest hitters of all time, even though he lost years of his career to serve in the Marines. How many more home runs would the Splendid Splinter have hit if he had those years back? What if Stosh can prevent the attack on Pearl Harbor and convince Williams not to serve in the military?

With black-and-white photographs and stats throughout, plus back matter separating fact from fiction, Ted & Me is the perfect mix of history and action for every young baseball fan.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780061234897
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	02/25/2014
Series:	Baseball Card Adventure Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	135,471
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 5.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Dan Gutman is the New York Times bestselling author of the Genius Files series. He is also the author of the Baseball Card Adventure series, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies around the world, and the My Weird School series, which has sold more than 10 million copies.

Thanks to his many fans who voted in their classrooms, Dan has received nineteen state book awards and ninety-two state book award nominations. He lives in New York City with his wife, Nina. You can visit him online at www.dangutman.com.

Editorial Reviews

Another winner in a series that effectively blends fast-paced storytelling with plenty of baseball lore.

ALA Booklist Online

Joe Stoshack (Stosh) is a young teenager and baseball player who possesses an unusual ability: when he holds a baseball card in his hand, he can travel in time to the date of the card. The FBI finds out about his ability and asks him to undertake a mission. Using a 1941 Ted Williams baseball card, Stosh's job is to find Williams and convince him to warn President Roosevelt about Pearl Harbor. Stosh agrees, realizing that if he changes history, he may be able to prevent Williams from enlisting in the military and thereby reclaim some of the slugger's best years as a baseball player—and create brand-new baseball records in the process. Time-travel books require suspension of belief and this one is no exception, but it is worth the trip. The characters are genuine. Heroes don't always act like heroes; what looks like good advice often isn't; saying someone is a jerk doesn't make it so; and being an American does not mean you are always right. Stosh quickly finds out that he needs to think for himself as he deals with the complex personality of Williams and confronts Charles Lindbergh's anti-Semitism and anti-war sentiment. The baseball stories, and the retelling of many episodes from Williams' life, are thrilling. The book includes a note to readers, an introduction, a section on fact and fiction, a bibliography and a chart of Williams' statistics. Better editing could have eliminated some minor problems (e.g., subject and tense shifts). But if the rest of the author's "Baseball Card Adventure" books are as good as this one, baseball fans will want to get them all. There's a lot to like about this book, and the ending will have kids asking their parents questions that start with, "What if?" Reviewer: Leona Illig

Children's Literature - Leona Illig