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A young fan, Joe Stoshack, uses a 1919 baseball card to travel back in time and tries to stop the Black Sox Scandal, hoping to restore Shoeless Joe Jackson’s legacy.

A baseball story about a teenage boy who battles to maintain his father's love of the game, showing how fathers and sons speak from the heart.

A baseball job becomes a journey to reconnect with a father in a sports novel about friendship and family ties.

Joe Stoshack discovers that holding a baseball card can take him through time, and with his dad’s rare 1951 Mickey Mantle rookie card he learns that adventures are never what they seem.

This comes as close to being Eisenhower's own diary as we are ever likely to come, for Capt. Butcher, naval aide to the General from 1942-45, kept the diary at Eisenhower's request, and here records not only the overall pattern of those three eventful years-1942-45- as they shaped themselves, but throughout -- by a word, a phrase, an incident, he gives those personal bits that make one feel that one learns to know Eiseuhower the man. The S.E.P. serialization has gleaned the 500,000 word text for the more dramatic highlights;- the sense of conflict as plans came under discussion, elements were changed, objectives abandoned, the whole integrated- this is richer in the full text, and makes one realize the immensity of the projects, first the African invasion, than the Normandy invasion. One senses more intimately the undercurrents of dislike for some of the compromises, as for instance the difficulties with the demands of Giraud, of Darlan, of De Gaulle, imperilling security and dispatch. One sees the General in his immediate response to the news of Patten's contretemps- and his measured and wise decision as to how to handle it. One feels the impelling pressure of events- of outside opinion- of inner dissension- and the greatness of a man who could rise above it, indefattguable but human, and needing occasional moments of escape in games, in being alone, or with a few chosen intimates. Great names and small cross the pages but never is there any feeling of Eiseuhower an other than a humble and simple man. The book supplies some of the facts behind the headlines-there's not much of actual news value- it is not inspired writing. But it is the record of three years that changed the world

When teenage Stosh travels back to 1863, he lands at the Battle of Gettysburg and seeks to prove whether Abner Doubleday truly invented baseball, blending history, time‑travel adventures, and fast‑paced field action.

Young Joe Stoshack discovers a priceless T‑206 Honus Wagner baseball card while cleaning his neighbor’s attic, and learns that the game’s true value goes beyond just money.