This book is one of my favorite books of all time. It was rejected by many publishers before HarperCollins finally accepted. And he's about to find out that it's worth a lot more than money. I should have known, because that's only a few miles away. Stosh has stumbled upon a T-206 Honus Wagner -- the most valuable baseball card in the world! His heart Joe Stoshack lives for baseball.
He can hardly believe his eyes. This is a charming little book that reminds me of similar sports fiction books I read when I was in junior high. Mom says buying baseball cards is like throwing money into a garbage can. The words burned in my ears, which do stick out a little from my head, I must admit. So he took them out and managed to go back to his time.
And besides, my baseball cards actually saved us money. Show that these observations are in agreement with the law of conservation of mass. The authors tone was to teach the audience a lesson about what can happen when take something that's not yours. Joe found a Honus Wagner baseball card in an old ladies attic that he was cleaning up for her. Joe said that he knew her so Honus gave Joe the half picture. The resolution is when Joe decides to give the card back to its rifle owner his neighbor and continues to live a poor life with his mom. Jonas is also a round character Honus Wagner: Honus is a famous baseball player that played in 1909.
The book also teaches some very good moral lessons, in this book the young man finds this card who belongs to the old lady next door, and has to decide whether to return it to her or keep the card and sell it to make a lot of money for his family. When he touches it he gets this weird feeling and he finds out he can travel back in time to when the card was made. His specialty is striking out. Since he was little he always played baseball. Always believe in yourself and believe in what you are capable of.
But Stosh is happy he has one. The rising action is when jonas is cleaning out his neighbors attic and stumbles across the most varible card in the world aka the Honus Wagner card. From hopeful and very youthful presidential candidates to stunt men, nothing is off limits in Gutman's fertile imagination. Critique My critique of this book is that it was a great book. Honus even lets Stosh play for him and make some good plays! At least I could see if she was right or not. When he found one, he never seemed to be able to hold on to it very long.
Finally, the men all open their pieces of paper only to find one of them has the black dot. He knew it was worth a lot of money. He knows everything there is to know about the game -- except how to play well. Critique My critique of this book is that it was a great book. This was a good book about a kid that has these powers to travel into time, to meet his favorites player. When baseball nut Joe Stoshack, 12, finds a mint condition Honus Wagner baseball card, he discovers that it is more than the world's most valuable card: It is also a granter of wishes and a time-travel portal, through which Wagner visits him in the present, and Joe goes to the 1909 World Series.
So he grabs it and wishes that he was back home this is an external conflict and it is also man vs supernatural. The main character, Joe Stoshack, is dealing with some tricky issues, like understanding his parents' divorce, struggling to make ends meet, being made fun of by his peers for his appearance, and making tough choices between right and wrong. While he is cleaning it out, he discovers an Honus Wagner baseball card from 1909. This baseball card magically takes him back in time to 1909 to meet baseball great Honus Wagner. He does not want to spit on it but wants to see it.
That morning as I woke up a changed man. A minor league ice hockey team named the Falcons had already announced that unless the team sold 300 plus season tickets, they would be leaving Springfield. Then something happened to me that made it all clear. The police then turn the painting over to the people who destroy it. Stosh then realizes that he can use the card to travel back in time and they go back to the time of the 1906 World Series.