If you've read my entry about Babe & Me you already know about Joe and his ability to travel through
time using baseball cards.
But in this book Joe's dad has been in a car wreck, and he wants Joe to travel back to 1951 using his Mickey Mantle card, to stop Mickey from tripping on the drain in Yankee Stadium ( which ruined his
career).
But Joe also has to babysit his little cousin, Samantha. And while talking... Sam brings up the 1940's
when most of the men were in the war, and woman had their own ball league, Joe refuses to believe
her. But when Sam swaps Joe's Mantle card with a Mickey Maguire card Joe winds up in 1944 instead of 1951 where he meets the starting of the 1944 Milwaukee Chicks and gets the job as the new mascot
(there were no mascots in 1944 but the author couldn't have Joe just sit there) He also has to pinch run
for Dolores Klosowski. But his time in 1944 wasn't all bad, when he took a train home (all he really needed to get home was a card from the present, but the Chicks didn't know that ) he met a nice boy about his age who was also a baseball fan, when they swaped autographs for fun this is what Joe got
he then ran to Mickey to warn him about the drain (he didn't hear) after that he went home.
I would recommend the book to sports fans, specificly female ones, and sexists.
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