Guys Read: How I Won the World Series: A Short Story from Guys Read: The Sports Pages

By Dan Gutman

Children's author and lifelong baseball fan Dan Gutman recounts how he himself was actually the hero in the New York Mets' miraculous defeat of the Boston Red Sox in Game Six of the 1986 World Series—the infamous Bill Buckner game.

This short story from the collection Guys Read: The Sports Pages is a winner.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Aug 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9780062243522

Dan Gutman

Dan Gutman is the New York Times bestselling author of the Genius Files series; the Baseball Card Adventure series, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies around the world; and the My Weird School series, which has sold more than 35 million copies. Thanks to his many fans who voted in their classrooms, Dan has received nineteen state book awards and ninety-two state book award nominations. He lives in New York City with his wife. You can visit him online at dangutman.com.

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How I Won the World Series

A Short Story from

Guys Read: The Sports Pages

By Dan Gutman

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How I Won the World Series

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About the Author

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HOW I WON THE WORLD SERIES

BY DAN GUTMAN

The story I’m about to tell you is so amazing, so improbable, and so preposterous, you’re going to think I must have made it up. But I swear every word of it is true. This is not fiction.

You may have heard that the Boston Red Sox lost the 1986 World Series to the New York Mets because a guy named Bill Buckner let a ground ball go through his legs.

It’s a lie!

The truth is that the Red Sox lost that game because of me. Dan Gutman. I won the World Series that year.

That’s every kid’s fantasy, isn’t it? It sure was when I was a kid. You’re standing