Bryant- Babe & Me by Dan Gutman

I was playing a video game called MLB PowerPros 2008. I was editing players on the Yankees, so they looked like Hall of Famers, like Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio.When I finished Ruth, it made me curious to find out more about him. So I took a swing at a book called Babe & Me


Here's the mystery: In Game 3 of the 1932 World Series at Wrigley Field in Chicago against the Cubs... Babe Ruth pointed to the centerfield wall right before he hit a homer to the exact same place. Some say he called his shot, some say he was just yelling at the pitcher, some say the story was made up by the press.  No one knows, and there's only one person who can solve the 80 year old mystery.


Joe Stoshack a boy about 12 years  old, his parents are divorced (he lives with his mother), and he plays little league baseball like me (except the divorce).When his father was laid off, he needed Joe's Babe Ruth card to sell, and here's something I forgot to mention Joe can travel through time using baseball cards. He's watched Honus Wagner win the 09' World Series, and he's lived with Jackie Robinson in 1947 (to learn more about Jackie, read my movie review of 42) . So instead of selling the card... Joe could use the card to take him and his dad back in time and buy a bunch of antique baseball cards, and at the same time they could solve the mystery of the 32' World Series.


 But instead of ending up in 1932 Chicago where Babe supposedly called his shot, they ended up in 1932 New York the day before Game 3. New York had been hit hard by the depression they passed a riot in Union Square Park which was broken up by Babe Ruth just happening to drive by. Joe and his father were invited to Babe's apartment, and to dinner where Babe ate dinner, but lost his dinner later on. They got on the train to Chicago, met Lou Gehrig and arrived in the Windy City in the morning. There they found out Babe is an AWFUL driver. Joe's dad was arrested attempted to warn presidential candidate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (known today as FDR)  about the Holocaust (to save his grandparents, who lived in Poland at the time.). Did Babe call his shot ? Will they ever find out ?

I would recommend this book to all baseball- loving kids, and Sci- Fi nerds, who believe time travel is real, because they've watched too many movies.