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Ted and Me (Baseball Card Adventure Series)

Name: Ted and Me (Baseball Card Adventure Series)
Author: Dan Gutman
ISBN: 9780061234873

by Dan Gutman

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Overview

Stosh should have figured that the FBI would find him eventually.

Now they’ve turned up on his doorstep—and they know all about his ability to travel through time using baseball cards. In fact, they want to send him back in time on a mission: to warn President Roosevelt about the attack on Pearl Harbor!

But when Stosh finds out that his “ticket” back to 1941 is a Ted Williams card, he starts planning a mission of his own. Williams is one of the greatest hitters of all time—even though he lost almost five 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?

Sometimes you can change history. Sometimes history can change you.

About the Author, Dan Gutman

Dan Gutman is the author of the Baseball Card Adventure series, which has sold more than one and a half million copies, and the My Weird School, My Weird School Daze, and My Weirder School series, which have sold five million copies! Thanks to his many fans who voted in their classrooms, he has received fifteen state book awards and thirty eight state book award nominations.

Dan Gutman lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey, with his wife, Nina, and their two children, Sam and Emma.

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Children's Literature - Leona Illig

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