Dan P. Gutman is an American writer, primarily of children's fiction. His best known works are the Baseball Card Adventures children's book series which started off with Honus & Me. Each book in the series revolves around a child traveling back in time to meet a baseball legend; the first work is based on the premise of a boy finding a Honus Wagner T206 baseball card in the attic of his neighbor. Further books in the series feature Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Dorothy Maguire, Abner Doubleday, Satchel Paige, Jim Thorpe, Ray Chapman, Roberto Clemente, and Ted Williams. The original story, Honus & Me, was made into a Turner Network Television made-for-TV picture entitled The Winning Season, starring Matthew Modine. Gutman was born in New York City. He was raised in Newark, New Jersey - by his mother alone from age 13, when his father abandoned them. He graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in psychology and started graduate school in that field. As of 2008 he lived in Haddonfield, New Jersey with his wife and two children. 

October 19th, 1954 in New York City (Age 69)