Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 195 pages
- Published by: AuthorHouse July 15, 2002
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0595236502
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0595236503
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
- Weighs: 11 ounces
Product Description
A comic adventure set in the zany world of sports card collectors.Don't miss the author's trivia challenge!
From his mansion on Long Island Sound, big-time sports collector Will Finney orchestrates an empire of deals and dealers. He and his down-home buddies from all walks of life make it big in the Hobby by using insider know-how and scam artist tricks.
Will gets his advice on business and women from the likes of Babe Ruth, Dizzy Dean and
Satchel Paige. When he is recruited by an international crime consortium to crack a syndicate of counterfeiters, he risks his reputation in the Hobby and the attentions of a gorgeous trader to protect the international monetary system. From the local shows to the National,
Cards captures the light side of the Hobbyits great guys, its comic scams, and its fundamental American eccentricities.
Cards is major league entertainment!
From the co-author of the irreverent bestseller
The 59:Second Employee-How to Stay One Second Ahead of Your One-Minute Manager (iUniverse and Houghton Mifflin). The author is a macha type who, despite spending her formative years among four card-trading brothers, still throws like a girl.
About The Author
Rae Andre is the best-selling author of
Positive Solitude (HarperCollins and iUniverse) and
The 59-Second Employee: How to Stay One Second Ahead of Your One-Minute Manager (Houghton Mifflin and iUniverse). After graduating from the UCLA film school and writing movie ads, she finally got a real job as a college professor.
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