page_title: Baseball Card Adventures
section_title: Honus & Me
hierarchical_section_title: Baseball Card Adventures / The books / Honus & Me
caption_attribution_description: English: Baseball card of Honus Wagner.
context_page_description: The Baseball Card Adventures is a novel series written by Dan Gutman. There are 12 books in the series, pubished by HarperCollins between 1999 and 2015. The books feature a boy, Joe Stoshack, who can travel through time when he touches old baseball cards. When he holds a baseball card, he feels a tingling sensation, and when it gets strong, is transported to the year that card was made and somewhere near the ballplayer on the card. Later he discovers that this power also works on very old photographs. He tries to use this power wisely, and he attempts to change history several times, but the result is always something different from his original goal.
  The novels are typically illustrated with black and white photos from the time period in which the story takes place. For example, when Jackie Robinson steals second base in Jackie & Me, a real photograph of Jackie Robinson stealing a base is pictured. Occasionally the books will also be illustrated with pictures taken exclusively for the book.
  The Cambridge Companion to Baseball in its review of baseball fiction calls the books "an eclectic enterprise" which "uninhibitedly embraces the genre's cliches."
context_section_description: Joe Stoshack discovers the T206 Honus Wagner, the most valuable baseball card in the world, while cleaning out an Ms. Amanda Young's attic. She is over 100 years old. Stoshack brings the card to a former bad guy wrestler, Birdie Farell. He tries to trick Joe into giving it to him for $10. Joe refuses. He uses it to travel back in time to 1909. Once Joe is in 1909, he discovers that he became a grown man. Joe helps Honus Wagner win the 7th game of the 1909 World Series, and travels back to the present to return the card to his neighbor. In 1909 he discovered Ms. Young is really Wagner's old girlfriend, and sends her back in time to be with him again.
caption: The Honus Wagner card Joe Stoshack uses to travel back to 1909 in Honus & Me
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