Two weeks ago I purchased the book "The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card." Being a big baseball fan, and having spent many of my formative years as an avid baseball card collector, I was quite interested in the legacy surrounding the T206 Honus Wagner card from 1909, widely regarded as the most valuable baseball card ever. The book is written by Michael O'Keeffe and Teri Thompson, both sports journalists for the New York Daily News.
Well, I just finished the book and flipped past all the notes, citations, special thanks, and so forth that often follow investigative pieces like this one at the back of the book. Then I got to the second-to-last page, titled "Copyright," that has this disclaimer:
"This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. And resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely fictional."
And, scene.
Well, I just finished the book and flipped past all the notes, citations, special thanks, and so forth that often follow investigative pieces like this one at the back of the book. Then I got to the second-to-last page, titled "Copyright," that has this disclaimer:
"This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. And resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely fictional."
And, scene.
