SuitabookRay & me
Dan Gutman
- Reading
- If the opening injury feels unsettling, pause to check in. You could also look together at which people and events are presented as historical and which belong to the adventure.
- Themes
- Changing a historical tragedy: Stosh travels to 1920 and tries to save Ray Chapman, who was killed by a pitch. The rescue attempt is part of the adventure, but how the story treats the possibility of changing the past is unclear.
- Baseball and injury: The book addresses baseball and injury; the detail of how it is developed remains unclear. Injury and equipment feature in the premise, but the book's broader treatment of player safety is unknown.
- Worth knowing
- The opening includes Stosh being struck in the head and losing consciousness; Chapman’s death by a pitch is central to the rescue attempt. The intensity and detail are unclear.