Children's author Dan Gutman was born in New York City on October 19, 1955. He grew up in Newark, New Jersey and graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in psychology in 1977. He started a video game magazine in 1982 called Video Games Player, which later became Computer Games. When the magazine went out of business in 1985, he decided to become a full-time writer. He wrote some non-fiction baseball books for adults, before changing his focus to non-fiction sports books for children. In 1994, he decided to switch to children's fiction. He is the author of the Baseball Card Adventures Series. He also presents a program which uses sports to get students excited about reading and writing to schools. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. He lives in Haddonfield, New Jersey with his wife and their two children.