Videos, books and props from a working magician
Magic that works in front of a real audience
I'm Carroll Baker, a comedy magician and mentalist from Columbus, Ohio. Everything here comes from doing this for a living since 1991.
Teaching videos you download the minute you buy, my books on restaurant magic and patter, and props I make and ship myself.
Teaching videos
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Pay once and your download page opens right away. The link is emailed to you too, and each purchase allows five downloads. Downloads never ship, so there is no shipping charge.
Books
Leftovers is the methods. Second Helpings is what to say while you do them. Both are PDF downloads, with no shipping.
Everything below is a physical item shipped to you.Everything above is a download, with no shipping.
Props and routines
Physical items, shipped to you by USPS.
Shipping is $7 flat, however much you order, and it applies only to physical items. Pearl and The Squeaker are add-ons, so put them in with a trick.
Everything goes out by USPS, usually within a day or two of your order. Videos and books are downloads, so they never carry a shipping charge.
About Carroll
I'm Carroll Baker, a comedy magician and mentalist from Columbus, Ohio.
I started magic at six, when I won a contest and the prize was lunch with Harry Blackstone Jr. I asked him how to learn magic, and he told me to go to the library. I did, and magic has been my full-time job since 1991.
That's more than 10,000 shows, including 31 years working restaurant tables, 15 years on cruise ships, and two six day runs in the Close Up Gallery at the Magic Castle in Hollywood. At the Castle I also did a private show for Criminal Minds actor Matthew Gray Gubler and his friends. In his words: "A modern day Merlin, only better, because there is no chance of getting eaten by a dragon."
I've been featured on CBS, NBC, Fox and ABC television. I've received the Society of American Magicians' Houdini-Thurston Award and Magician of the Year title, and I'm a seven-time International Brotherhood of Magicians Close-Up Magician of the Year.
I teach magic classes and camps for kids, and I wrote Leftovers, a practical guide to restaurant magic, along with a guide to running magic camps and after school programs.
The videos and books here come from doing this for a living. They're made for performers who want material that works in front of a real audience.