Dan Gutman
The author of over 80 books in a little over a decade of writing, Dan Gutman has written on topics from computers to baseball. Beginning his freelance career as a nonfiction author dealing mostly with sports for adults and young readers, Gutman has concentrated on juvenile fiction since 1995. His most popular titles include the time-travel sports book Honus and Me and its sequels, and a clutch of baseball books, including The Green Monster from Left Field. From hopeful and very youthful presidential candidates to stunt men, nothing is off limits in Gutman's fertile imagination. As he noted on his author Web site, since writing his first novel, They Came from Centerfield, in 1994, he has been hooked on fiction. "It was fun to write, kids loved it, and I discovered how incredibly rewarding it is to take a blank page and turn it into a WORLD."
Gutman was born in New York City in 1955, but moved to Newark, New Jersey the following year and spent his youth there.
“In and effort to be fair, an umpire will sometimes cheat.”
“If you're going to break the rules, you might as well break them correctly.”
“...baseball freely admits that the sport--like civilized society--is crawling with bums.”
“Do stupid stuff and even stupider suff will happen to you.”
“footnote:"With all due respect" is grown-up talk for "I think you're stupid.”
“Hey soda girl. You're flat.”
“A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to take over the world.”
“If the president and the Vice President dies who becomes President" "Thats easy Arnold Swartzanager”