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Babe & Me

a baseball card adventure

  • 2000 first published
  • 161 pages
  • ★ 5.0 (3 ratings)
  • 13 editions

Babe & Me is a 2000 time-travel fiction and historical fiction novel by Dan Gutman. It features Babe Ruth (1895-1948). Key subjects include fathers and sons, Baseball, time travel and baseball cards.

Open Library readers give it an average of 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, and 17 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 13 editions.

At about 161 pages, most readers finish it in 2–3 hours.

About Babe & Me

On October 1, 1932, during Game Three of the Chicago Cubs -- New York Yankees World Series, Babe Ruth belted a long home run to straightaway centerfield. According to legend, just before he hit, Babe pointed to the bleachers and boldly predicted he would slam the next pitch there.Did he call the shot or didn't he? Witnesses never agreed. Like other baseball fans, Joe Stoshack wants to know the truth. But unlike other fans, Joe has the astonishing ability to travel through time and solve one of baseball's greatest puzzles....
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Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Characters

  • Babe Ruth (1895-1948)

Subjects

  • Fathers and sons in fiction
  • Ruth, Babe, in fiction
  • Baseball in fiction
  • Baseball cards in fiction
  • Fathers and sons
  • Time travel in fiction
  • Historical Fiction
  • Baseball
  • Time travel
  • Baseball cards
  • Children's fiction

Publisher

Quick answers

Who wrote Babe & Me?

Babe & Me was written by Dan Gutman and first published in 2000.

What genre is Babe & Me?

It is usually shelved as Time Travel and Historical Fiction.

How long is Babe & Me?

The median edition has 161 pages, about 2–3 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Babe & Me?

Readers who like it often enjoy Dragon of the Red Dawn, Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber.

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