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213: 664: 27: 1030: 162:. 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. 229:, 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 76: 258:
play, and while going back in time he accidentally himself turns black. He tries to bring back a bunch of Jackie Robinson cards, but the cards are stolen by the Dodgers' batboy, Anthony. Joe wants to go after him, but Jackie tells him it's not safe. In the story, Joe also meets Jackie's wife and son,
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really invented baseball. This is the first and only story in the series where Stosh's mom travels through time. The two land in a war, and help fight with a group of kids. Stosh's mom helps save an injured person's life by using modern day medical techniques. The doctor is quite impressed. Soon Joe
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is innocent, and he goes back in time to try to stop it from ever happening. When he gets to 1919, three gamblers lock him in a closet because he knew about the scandal. Shoeless Joe's wife, Katie sets Stosh free and he tells Katie and Joe about the scandal. He fails to stop it but he saves his
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rookie baseball card. He tells Joe to go back and prevent the terrible accident that negatively impacted Mantle's baseball career, so Joe travels back to 1951. However, Joe's cousin Samantha switches the Mantle card for a catcher of a women's league team,
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Witnesses never agreed whether Babe Ruth called his shot. Like other baseball fans, Joe Stoshack wants to know the truth. Joe Stoshack and his father Bill travel back to the year 1932 and catch
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Joe Stoshack was a ten year old boy who was assigned to do a book report on Jackie Robinson for black history month. Joe goes to Flip Valentini and borrows a 1947 Jackie Robinson card.
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Joe went back in time on the exact day Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier between the black league and the white league. Joe experiences what it is like to be an
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After Joe is hit in the head by a baseball and wakes up after two weeks in a coma, he learns about another baseball player who wasn't so lucky –
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in its review of baseball fiction calls the books "an eclectic enterprise" which "uninhibitedly embraces the genre's cliches."
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between 1997 and 2015. The books feature a boy, Joe Stoshack, who can travel through time when he touches old
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Joe's dad gets in a car crash, and fearing he might die, tells Joe his inheritance: a
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agent, who found out about Joe's power, comes and sends Joe back in time with a
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Stosh and Flip Valentini go back in time with a radar gun to find out how fast
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photos from the time period in which the story takes place. For example, when
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finds Abner, and gets the answer for his question in a very interesting way.
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Jackie Jr. Joe also meets Flip Valentini as a kid and gives him advice.
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Get Those Guys Reading!: Fiction and Series Books that Boys Will Love
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The Honus Wagner card Joe Stoshack uses to travel back to 1909 in
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Joe and his enemy Bobby Fuller go back to 1913, where they meet
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in a segregated society when he travels back to 1947 to watch
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in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.
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Dan Gutman
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Honus & Me

Honus & Me
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Honus Wagner
1909 World Series
African American
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Babe Ruth's called shot
Black Sox Scandal
Shoeless Joe
Mickey Mantle
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Abner Doubleday
Satchel Paige
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