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Stealing Home: A Father, a Son, and the Road to the Perfect Game

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Stealing Home: A Father, a Son, and the Road to the Perfect Game"Tenderly poignant, wise and affecting. A beautifully stirring reflection on the joys and challenges of fatherhood." Kirkus In an epic road trip with his Little League son, a divorced dad's eight ballpark journey tries to rescue his fatherhood and learn how his dad's suicide might not doom him to repeat a father's mistakes. The rarest outcome in sports is baseball's perfect game. One team does everything right, forcing the other to accomplish nothing.

"Tenderly poignant, wise and affecting. A beautifully stirring reflection on the joys and challenges of fatherhood." Kirkus

In an epic road trip with his Little League son, a divorced dad's eight-ballpark journey tries to rescue his fatherhood--and learn how his dad's suicide might not doom him to repeat a father's mistakes.

The rarest outcome in sports is baseball's perfect game. One team does everything right, forcing the other to accomplish nothing. In 150 years of baseball, there have only been 23. Perfect is nearly impossible. As a divorced dad, Ron was trying to redeem his fatherhood with a road trip with his son. Their odyssey of crossing eight states in a rented convertible was supposed to salvage Ron's life as an unsure father. Custody fatherhood demoted him to the second team--he was certain of that. One sign of salvation came unbidden in an unscheduled tenth game.

Thousands of miles and dozens of innings delivered a discovery: a drive toward perfect fatherhood has a destination that cannot be found on any map. It's the tale of an eleven-day, nine-game trip -- and how a father's plans for perfection delivered things deeper than scores, miles, and smiles. Something magical and rare appeared at the end, in his heart as well as on a diamond.

"Part baseball, part fatherhood, and all boyhood, Stealing Home plays out the mystery of love and family. Fueled by his determination to become a better dad, Seybold's journey becomes a quest to reconcile the past and his future. The magic lies in the storytelling that travels the road to something perfect." Donna Johnson, author of Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir

"A must-read. This book is about much more than baseball. It explores the father-son relationship on so many levels." -- Reedsy Discovery

"Rich with sports metaphor, it offers a touching and complex look at how, experience by experience, individuals repair generations of fury-fueled despair." -- Indie Reader

"A poignant memoir about the intersections of sports and fatherhood, its text evocative and careful...dynamic as it balances scenes in the present and the past. Its storytelling method is engaging and satisfying." -- Clarion Foreword

"Authentic, emotional, and brave, Stealing Home is a timeless journey of the universal struggle to rise above the past. It's a beautiful testament to the power of a father's love." Claire Ashby, NY Times bestselling author of When You Make It Home

"Ably capturing the excitement of live baseball, the author's remembrance is a profoundly touching one, especially given his forthcoming candor and willingness to dispense self-criticism." -- Kirkus

"A beautifully written, touching memoir about family dynamics revealed in the bonding of father and son." Larry Brill, author of award-winning romance Deja Vu All Over Again

"Five Stars. It's so much more than a memoir. It's a grand road trip story as well as a real-life family saga. At its heart, Stealing Home is the consummate baseball story. An enthralling memoir, most highly recommended." Reader's Favorite

"Stealing Home deserves a spot in any good parenting collection. a jaunty yet introspective story about an evolving relationship between father and son. Readers receive unexpected treats that move far beyond the physical journey and into the finer art of sharing not just love, but life." Midwest Book Review



Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Skin Horse Press
Published: 07/28/2019
ISBN: 9780985006730
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d

Review Citations: Foreword 05/28/2019
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2019
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Aayan
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★★★★★ 5
This is the best purchase I’ve made in 2025!
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I don’t even know where to start ever since I finished (in early August, 2025) the whole series of this comic. I have never been this much speechless in my life. It’s my first comic that I’ve ever read and finished it. I got into invincible through the TV show and I wanted to give a shot on comics because people said it’s even better than the show, and I was blown away just by the tv show until I started reading this. It didn’t matter how tired I would be and/or how busy I would be, but I’d still make time to grab and read at least some pages very excited. There are so many parts in this comics where it reflected on my personal life and somewhat opened my eyes of what I had and need to do in my life. It was really fun, exciting, loving, caring, sad and emotional story. This comic has a definitive beginning and a final, conclusive ending. I loved it overall despite where there were some boring parts, but it all made sense later in the main story. Very well developed characters, stories and art. Now whenever I pass by my bookshelf and I see these books puts big fat huge smile on my face. I’m glad I have it in my collection. I got to experience in this comic what I couldn’t in real life. Every other night in random or toughest moment I would think about what would mark do in this situation. Thank you for this masterpiece ❤️
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Kolby Laughter
Fort Morgan, US
★★★★★ 5
Amazing story, just don’t buy from amazon
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Don’t buy these from Amazon. The book is obviously great, but Amazon likes to just throw these into bubble mailers (or even just brown paper bags) and then send them off. No shrink wrap, no padding. Just a big book rattling around loosely in a bag. It will come dented and dinged 100% of the time. Just buy from a comic book shop or eBay seller who actually cares enough to package properly. The content of the book itself is fantastic though. I love this story so far and can’t believe I took so long to get into it. It has such a classic superhero feel while also subverting the genre in so many cool ways. Robert Kirkman can’t miss!
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Huda
New York, US
★★★★★ 5
Wish to have such books in my country, waiting for books to arrive bothers me!
Format: Paperback
Amazing books! Enjoyed reading the first volume, can’t wait to get the second volume, i love the pictures and colors of it alot
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Joshua spencer
Grantham, US
★★★★★ 5
Great comic for beginners
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Great story, great book, and and even greater show
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Jamie B.
New York, US
★★★★★ 5
Love it even though it's heavy af
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Great book beautiful full color images. My only issue is that it's heavy the thing is a wrist breaker. Better read it at a table. But the story is great love it.
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