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07/30/2004    
S. M. Smoller     e-mail

      Honus & Me is written by Dan Gutman. This story is about a boy named Joe who finds a baseball card in a neighbor's attic while cleaning it out for her.  The card is worth a half of a million dollars!  Joe feels a tingling sensation all over his body when he touches it.  When he falls asleep one night with it in his hand, he wakes up in the middle of the night to see Honus Wagner, the guy on the baseball card that is already supposed to be dead, sitting there is his room!  Honus has a big game in a few days, so Joe goes back with Honus to his time, and while he is there both of their dreams come true.  Honus wins the world series and Joe gets to play in the big leagues.  This book is sports related fiction.
     The setting takes place in Louisville.  THis town was the firs town to make a baseball bat.  This is why there is a bat called "Louisville Slugger".  This is a nice town but it has some weird people in it.  This book takes place in the present time, but also in the past because Honus and Joe travel back in time.
     The character I'm going to describe is Honus Wagner. Honus is a tall, sort of goofy looking guy.  He has a big nose that everyone from other team make fun of him for.  He also has big ears.  People call him names like Dumbo, or ask him if he wants peanuts, something just to try to annoy him (but it doesn't) and make him mess up at the plate or in the field.  Honus is a very nice guy though.  Everyone he knows likes him.  He even donates half, of most of his money he gets from his career, to people who truly need the money.  He says he just likes the game, not the money.
     I liked one of the unusual parts in the story.  It's the part where Honus travels through time to Joe's bedroom.  When Joe wakes up in the middle of the night, he sees Honus Wagner in his room!  
     "Who are you?," he asks the odd looking man.
      "I'm Honus Wagner," he said nicely. 
      "How'd you get here?", Joe asked.  
      "I don't know. one minute I was catching fly balls, the next, I'm in here."
     Joe asks Honus real personal questions about himself that only Honus Wagner himself would know.  He found some statistics from a book he had, asked Honus, and Honus got every one of them right!  This really was Honus Wagner!
     Personally, I loved this book.  I don't like to read that much, I admit that, but I really liked this book.  It always left me wondering what was going to happen next.  I would recommend this book to anyone that likes sports, preferably boys, that like sports, have at least an OK imagination and an open mind.