Joe Stoshack was a ten year old boy who was assigned to do a book report on Jackie Robinson for black history month.

Young is really Wagner's old girlfriend, and sends her back in time to be with him again. Joe helps Honus Wagner win the 7th game of the 1909 World Series, and travels back to the present to return the card to his neighbor. Once Joe is in 1909, he discovers that he became a grown man. He uses it to travel back in time to 1909. He tries to trick Joe into giving it to him for $10. Stoshack brings the card to a former bad guy wrestler, Birdie Farell. Joe Stoshack discovers the T206 Honus Wagner, the most valuable baseball card in the world, while cleaning out an Ms. The Honus Wagner card Joe Stoshack uses to travel back to 1909 in Honus & Me

The Cambridge Companion to Baseball in its review of baseball fiction calls the books 'an eclectic enterprise' which 'uninhibitedly embraces the genre's cliches.' Library Journal called them 'good examples' of traditional sports novels. Occasionally the books will also be illustrated with pictures taken exclusively for the book. For example, when Jackie Robinson steals second base in Jackie & Me, a real photograph of Jackie Robinson stealing a base is pictured. The novels are typically illustrated with black and white photos from the time period in which the story takes place. He tries to use this power wisely, and he attempts to change history several times, but the result is always something different from his original goal. Later he discovers that this power also works on very old photographs. When he holds a baseball card, he feels a tingling sensation, and when it gets strong, is transported to the year that card was made and somewhere near the ballplayer on the card. The books feature a boy, Joe Stoshack, who can travel through time when he touches old baseball cards. There are 12 books in the series, published by HarperCollins between 19. The Baseball Card Adventures is a novel series written by Dan Gutman.

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