All these had a great influence on my writing. I had my own personal experiences, and I saw how other players reacted to plays, to teammates' and fans' remarks and innuendoes, to managers' orders, etc. I'm sure that playing sandlot baseball and then semiprofessional baseball with a Class C club in the Canadian-American League influenced my writing. I submitted it to Little, Brown, and the book was published in 1954. So I came up with my first children's book, The Lucky Baseball Bat. She was immediately interested and told me that they needed sports stories badly. I spoke about my idea to the branch librarian. I was living in Syracuse, New York at the time, working at General Electric. I also read detective, horror, aviation, and sports stories and decided I would try writing them myself.ĭetermined to sell, I wrote a detective story a week for 40 weeks, finding the time to marry, work, and play baseball and basketball before I sold my first story in 1941, "The Missing Finger Points," for $50 to Detective Story magazine.Īfter writing and selling children's sports stories to magazines, I decided to write a baseball book for children. I was selling magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman, and Liberty, and I would read the stories, particularly the adventure and mystery stories, and think how wonderful it would be to be able to write stories and make a living at it. "I became interested in writing when I was 14, a freshman in high school. In 1992, Matt Christopher talked about being a children's book author. Matt Christopher is America's bestselling sports writer for children, with more than 100 books and sales approaching six million copies.
He is the best-selling author of more than one hundred sports books for young readers.
Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Matt Christopher is the writer young readers turn to when they're looking for fast-paced, action-packed sports novels. and suddenly, impossibly, Michael is running the ball for a spectacular touchdown Twelve-year-old Michael, confined to a wheelchair after an accident, uses mental telepathy to communicate football plays to his quarterback twin brother Tom, then suddenly finds himself on the field in his brother' s place. During one game Michael concentrates very hard on a play he thinks could help the team, and Tom calls the exact play a split second later Is it coincidence, or can the boys communicate through ESP? The boys try a daring experiment in which they push their telepathic powers to the limit.
Unfortunately, because of a tragic accident, Michael must watch from the sidelines as his brother calls the plays on the football field. Can Michael and Tom read each other' s minds? Michael and Tom Curtis are identical twins who share a love of football.
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