Roberto & Me (15 page)
Authors: Dan Gutman
Thanks to the following people for the kind help they gave me on this book: Warren Friss of Topps, Dave Kelly of the Library of Congress, Pat Kelly and John Horne of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Dave Arrigo of the Pittsburgh Pirates, Jo Pure of the Haddonfield Public Library, Nina Wallace, Zach Rice, Rachel Trotta, Bob Feist, Dr. Kevin Browngoehl, Peter Blau, Richard Milner, Liza Voges, Rachel Orr, and all the folks at HarperCollins.
DAN GUTMAN
is the author of many fantastic books for young readers. Besides baseball, he has written about soccer, basketball, bowling, and aliens. Thanks to his many fans who voted in their classrooms, he has received fifteen state book awards and thirty-seven state book-award nominations. Dan lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey, with his wife, Nina, and their two children, Sam and Emma.
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Jacket art © 2010 by Steve Chorney
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gutman, Dan.
Roberto & me : a baseball card adventure / Dan Gutman.
â1st ed.
   p. cm.
Summary: Stosh travels back to 1969 to try to prevent the untimely
death of Roberto Clemente, a legendary baseball player and humanitarian, but upon his return to the
present, he meets his own great-grandson who takes him into the future, and what he finds there is
more shocking than anything he has encountered in his travels to the past.
ISBN 978-0-06-123484-2 (trade bdg.)
ISBN 978-0-06-123485-9 (lib. bdg.)
[1. Time travelâFiction. 2. BaseballâFiction. 3.
Clemente, Roberto, 1934â1972âFiction. 4. Conduct of lifeâFiction. 5. Global
warmingâFiction.] I. Title. II. Title: Roberto and me.
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