Captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game as the author marks the stages of his life through the cards he collected as a child.
After Frank, Joe, and their friend Biff visit a baseball convention in New York City where they are sold a counterfeit card, they discover a scam and find themselves playing hardball.
Provides practical advice on building a baseball card collection, covering such topics as trading cards, preserving them, and finding rookie cards, error cards, and other specialities.
With his ability to travel through time using baseball cards and photographs, thirteen-year-old Joe and his mother go back to 1863 to ask Abner Doubleday whether he invented baseball, but instead find themselves in the middle of the Battle of Gettysburg.