After a near-fatal car accident, twelve-year-old Ryder's mother needs an operation they cannot afford and while a new friend tries to raise funds, Ryder travels with a grouchy, disabled neighbor, from Yankee Stadium to Turner Field seeking the major league baseball player who might be Ryder's father. After a near-fatal car accident, twelve-year-old Ryder's one chance to save his mother may be his birth father, a famous baseball player. But Ryder has only one clue to his father's identity, and time is slipping away.