Cardboard Gods by Josh Wilker

Cardboard Gods by Josh Wilker

Cardboard Gods is the memoir of Josh Wilker, a brilliant writer who has marked the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. It also captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game. Along the way, as we get to know Josh, his family, and his friends, we also get Josh's classic observations about the central artifacts from his life: the baseball cards themselves. Josh writes about an imagined correspondence with his favorite player, Carl Yastrzemski; he uses the magical bubble-blowing powers of journeyman Kurt Bevacqua to shed light on the weakening of the powerful childhood bond with his older brother; he considers the doomed utopian back-to-the-land dreams of his hippie parents against the backdrop of inimitable 1970s baseball figures such as "Designated Pinch Runner" Herb Washington and Mark "The Bird" Fidrych. Cardboard Gods is more than just the story of a man who can't let go of his past, it's proof that -- to paraphrase Jim Bouton -- as children we grow up holding baseball cards but in the end we realize that it's really the other way around.

Josh Wilker writes for FoxSports.com, Vice Sports, The Classical, Baseball Prospectus, ESPN.com, and other publications. Cardboard Gods, his earlier memoir, was a featured book in Sports Illustrated's 2010 Year in Sports Media issue, a 2010 Casey Award finalist, and a 2011 Booklist best book of the year. He also maintains a blog at cardboardgods.net.

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ISBN 13	9781934734162
ISBN 10	1934734160
Title	Cardboard Gods
Author	Josh Wilker
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Falls Media
Year published	2010-05-06
Number of pages	208
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.