Filmmaker and actor Stuart Stone set out to make a documentary about one of his loves that vanished. But his story became more about another loss.
Jack Of All Trades first seeks to figure out why baseball card collecting became a thing of the past and why cards that everyone said would be worth so much became worthless. Then it tries to answer a much tougher question: why did Stone’s father, who was seemingly on top of the world, with money, great children and a great wife, suddenly sell his baseball card stores, disappear without a trace and not stay in touch?
Stone, 40, grew up in Toronto and spent a lot of time at his father Jack Eisenstein’s baseball card store called Sluggers, which grew to 12 locations. In the film, which is currently airing on Super Channel, and will soon be on Netflix, he speaks to representatives from the major baseball card …