Dan Gutman 
Ray & Me [EPUB ebook] 

The ball hit me. It sounded like a bomb going off in my head. Everything went dark. The last thing I remember was hearing somebody yell, "Call 911!"When Stosh gets hit in the head with a baseball, he’s lucky to survive. Then he learns about another player who wasn’t so lucky Ray Chapman, the only player in major league history to get hit by a ball and die. If only they’d had batting helmets back then . . .Get ready to go back in time as Stosh travels to 1920 to try to save Rayand meets Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, and even Harry Houdini. This baseball card adventure is a wild ride to a moment that changed baseball history forever!