A Baseball Card Mystery - tells the story of Trevor Mitchell an 11 year old boy, whose great-grandfather gives him a 1915 Babe Ruth rookie card valued at $50,000 which mysteriously disappears. This youth fiction story teaches valuable lessons about truth, friendship and forgiveness.
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Robert Skead received the idea for Hitting Glory after he purchased a vintage baseball bat at an auction and asked, "What if this bat belonged to some famous baseball player when he was a kid?" An avid baseball and basketball fan, Robert's favorite subject while growing up was always creative writing. It was a talent his mother noticed and encouraged him to pursue as a young man. Robert is also the author of Safe At Home - A Baseball Card Mystery and Elves Can't Dunk by Cross Training Publishing. His children's short stories have appeared in Clubhouse Magazine published by Focus on the Family. He lives with his wife and family in New Jersey.
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A Very Good copy of "a baseball card mystery."Slight curl to volume. Very slight shelf wear to covers. Faint line streaks to cover. No wrinkle to spine. Author signed in black ballpoint on title page inside front cover. 94 pages. Bottom corners of pages 33 through 40 are slightly folded. Text is clean with no markings. Contents:"Leading Off; Value Lesson; The Connection; Feeding Frenzy; Truth and Consequences; Double-Minded; Rewind; The Pickle; First Things Last; Hardball; Cut-off Play; Old Timer's Day; The Unexpected; Duty; The Weaving; Fact vs. Fiction" Summary: "This is a heartwarming story about Trevor, an 11 year old boy whose aged great-grandfather gives him a 1915 Babe Ruth card valued at $50,000. Trevor's joy is threatened by the mysterious disappearance of the card and by his friends' skepticism about great-grandpa's claim of being the only man in baseball history to steal home off of Babe Ruth.". Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000822
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Seller: Bradley Ross Books, Auburn, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition. Cross Training Publishing 1999. New softcover. Book. Seller Inventory # 016177
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