After enjoying a baseball game at Yankee Stadium, Gideon gets separated from his family in the crowd, and somehow finds his way behind the scenes, to the employee-only section of the stadium. Here he meets a series of anthropomorphized, talking objects, from the tools used to clean the ball-field to the balls and bats used to play the game, to the food consumed by the spectators. Gideon asks each group of objects how to find his family, eventually finding his way to Monument Park, where the Babe Ruth monument directs him, he meets Derek Jeter, and is then reunited with his family.

I cannot say, all told, that I was that impressed by Derek Jeter Presents: Night at the Stadium, which is described on the front dust-jacket flap as "Night at the Museum meets Alice in Wonderland." Although not a huge baseball fan, I do appreciate engaging sports stories, but the narrative here just felt flat and uninteresting to me. I didn't find the antics of the various anthropomorphized objects amusing, I wasn't that thrilled when Gideon got to meet Mr. Jeter, and I couldn't summon much enthusiasm when he was finally reunited with his family. The text just failed to evoke much of a response at all, and I found the digital artwork flat and unappealing. The only thing I did like, which prompted me to give two stars instead of three, was that artist Tom Booth depicted a bi-racial family in his illustrations. I'm probably not the ideal audience for this one, but I would imagine that even rabid baseball fans could do better... ( )