Honus & Me: A Baseball Card Adventure [Turtleback]

Dan Gutman (Author)

Product Details

• Turtleback
• Publisher: Demco Media (March 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0606134875
• ISBN-13: 978-0606134873
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (58 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,917,819 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

This is hard. I'm a pretty regular Jersey guy who spent fifteen years trying to write newspaper articles, magazine articles, screenplays, books for adults, and just about everything else before I discovered the one thing I'm good at--writing fiction for kids. I aim for kids who DON'T like to read, and hopefully the kids who DO like to read will enjoy my stuff too. For all the gory details about me, check out my web site.

Customer Reviews

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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great fantasy for all baseball lovers old and young, April 6, 2008

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Michael R. Chernick "statman31147" (Holland PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Honus and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure (Paperback)

This is a nice fiction story not as good but up in the ranks with "Field of Dreams." A boys travels back in time to see the greats from the early years of baseball. Great nostalgia and fantasy esoecially if you like stories involving time travel. The cover is the famous rare Honus Wagner card worth more than any other baseball card because of its rarity. The book includes some very interesting non-fiction about how the card came about and why it is so rare.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Historical Fun!, December 4, 2002

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M. Allen Greenbaum (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Honus and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure (Paperback)

This is one of the best in the Joe Stoshack series, the boy who travels in time to meet some of baseball's legends. Gutman excels at evoking baseball's early years, when the game was more intimate and perhaps rougher. Gutman really did his research: "People were hanging all over the fence, and there were seats in front [italics] of the fence. The only thing keeping fans away from the playing field was a rope." Gutman also includes some play by play descriptions from the 1909 Series.

Gutman supplements these descriptions with newspaper clipings, great photos (including one of Wagner and Cobb, and what I assume is the Detroit field, "Bennett Park," in 1909), a reproduction of the T-206 Wagner, stats, a 2-page baseball "tips" piece written by Wagner in 1950, and a short section that separates the book's facts from fiction.

There's a minor romantic subplot that seemed a bit contrived, but it's incidental to the main action here. Wagner comes off as an admirable man with a wonderful sense of humor, and Gutman, as usual, shares with us his great affection for the game.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars we love dan gutman's baseball card adventure books!, May 29, 2003

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Gae Polisner "The Pull of Gravity, fsg." (Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Honus and Me: A Baseball Card Adventure (Paperback)

my 7 1/2 year old son (he's an above-grade reader) has read all five, and loved all of, dan gutman's baseball card books. i had the privilege of listening to one on tape -- this one, honus & me. it is well-told with great morality lessons and interesting historical information. Dan Gutman is the perfect author for baseball loving little boys. We both cant wait for his next.