Ray & Me

by Dan Gutman

Book Overview

The ball hit me. It sounded like a bomb going off in my head. Everything went dark. The last thing I remember was hearing somebody yell, "Call 911 "

When Stosh gets hit in the head with a baseball, he's lucky to survive. Then he learns about another player who wasn't so lucky--Ray Chapman, the only player in major league history to get hit by a ball and die. If only they'd had batting helmets back then . . .

Get ready to go back in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061234818
• ISBN13: 9780061234811
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

A Spectacular Baseball Adventure

.....Dan Gutman's "Ray and Me" is an excellent baseball fantasy story. The story follows Joe Stoshack, better known as Stosh, who has the ability to travel back to any point in time by holding a baseball card from that year. After his Little League coach, Flip, asks him to pitch instead of playing shortstop, he is hit in the head with a baseball and wakes up from a coma two weeks later in the hospital. Flip, now sorry he insisted Stosh play pitcher, tells him about Ray Chapman. Chapman was a major league baseball player who, on August 16, 1920, was hit in the head by a pitch from Carl Mays and died that night. That one pitch ended Chapman's life and essentially ended Mays's career. Knowing about Stosh's powers, Flip gives him a Carl Mays baseball card and encourages him to travel back and try to save Chapman's life. He is shocked to realize his power no longer work. It is only after a few weeks of recovery that the tingling sensations from holding a baseball card return to Stosh, and his powers work again. He immediately goes back in time using the Mays card. He tries to save Chapman's life, bringing a batting helmet with him (a safety device that didn't exist in the 1920s). .....This story is a fantastic combination of baseball history and time-traveling fantasy. It combines the life of Ray Chapman, a real person who is the only major league player to die from a pitch, with the life of Joe Stoshack, a fictional Little Leaguer with the power to travel back in time. It fantastically depicts what might have happened on August 16, 1920. This is why I think "Ray and Me" deserves five out of five stars.

An Excellent book

I was truly surprised with this great book from Dan Gutman, this was much better than his last books.

Another great baseball book

My baseball loving son and I always enjoy Dan Gutman's baseball stories. This is no exception.

Another great book

My 12 year old son is not much of a fan for reading, but the minute he finds out that another of the Dan Gutman Baseball card adventures is available we get it. He read this one in one day. For moms of boys who don't like to read, try this series. It will be a hit!

a different ball game

this book was different then the other books in the series. it took me more than a day to read it.