baseball cards

Includes a brief history of baseball cards and information on how to shop for, evaluate, buy, and preserve these collectibles.

During a summer of baseball and baseball card trading, eleven-year-old Andy makes discoveries about his father, his grandfather, who played professional baseball, and himself.

Joe Stoshack, a boy who has the ability to travel through time, learns a lesson about dignified behavior in the face of ethnic and racial strife when he goes back to 1947 to meet African-American baseball legend Jackie Robinson.

Joey, who loves baseball but is not very good at it, finds a valuable 1909 Honus Wagner card and travels back in time to meet Honus.

After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the Smart Pick fruit picker.

Jigsaw tries to recover Eddie's baseball cards which have disappeared in school.