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Cardboard Gods by Josh Wilker (2011, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN-101616200693
ISBN-139781616200695
eBay Product ID (ePID)109172730
Product Key Features
Book TitleCardboard Gods
Number of Pages243 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicBaseball / History, Baseball / General, Sports Cards / Baseball, General
GenreSports & Recreation, Antiques & Collectibles, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorJosh Wilker
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight14.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
ReviewseoeI couldne(tm)t put it down . . . In much the same way Doris Kearns Goodwine(tm)s Wait Till Next Year is as much about growing up in the 1950s as her being a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Wilker, too, uses baseball as a backdrop in writing about the e(tm)70s.e e" The Boston Herald, 'oeI couldn't put it down . . . In much the same way Doris Kearns Goodwin's Wait Till Next Year is as much about growing up in the 1950s as her being a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Wilker, too, uses baseball as a backdrop in writing about the '70s.' '" The Boston Herald, I couldn't put it down . . . In much the same way Doris Kearns Goodwin's Wait Till Next Year is as much about growing up in the 1950s as her being a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Wilker, too, uses baseball as a backdrop in writing about the '70s. - The Boston Herald, "I couldn't put it down . . . In much the same way Doris Kearns Goodwin's Wait Till Next Year is as much about growing up in the 1950s as her being a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Wilker, too, uses baseball as a backdrop in writing about the '70s." -- The Boston Herald, SI couldn "t put it down . . . In much the same way Doris Kearns Goodwin "s Wait Till Next Year is as much about growing up in the 1950s as her being a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Wilker, too, uses baseball as a backdrop in writing about the "70s. " The Boston Herald, Wilker connects baseball cards to more pop culture references than a season of Family Guy -everything from Louis L'Amour westerns to Jack Kerouac to Elvis Costello . . . You'll love this book. - Minneapolis Star Tribune, 'oeWilker connects baseball cards to more pop culture references than a season of Family Guy '"everything from Louis L'Amour westerns to Jack Kerouac to Elvis Costello . . . You'll love this book.' '" Minneapolis Star Tribune, eoeWilker connects baseball cards to more pop culture references than a season of Family Guy e"everything from Louis Le(tm)Amour westerns to Jack Kerouac to Elvis Costello . . . Youe(tm)ll love this book.e e" Minneapolis Star Tribune, Wilker connects baseball cards to more pop culture references than a season of Family Guy everything from Louis L Amour westerns to Jack Kerouac to Elvis Costello . . . You ll love this book. Minneapolis Star Tribune, SWilker connects baseball cards to more pop culture references than a season of Family Guy "everything from Louis L "Amour westerns to Jack Kerouac to Elvis Costello . . . You "ll love this book. " Minneapolis Star Tribune, "Wilker connects baseball cards to more pop culture references than a season of Family Guy --everything from Louis L'Amour westerns to Jack Kerouac to Elvis Costello . . . You'll love this book." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune, I couldn t put it down . . . In much the same way Doris Kearns Goodwin s Wait Till Next Year is as much about growing up in the 1950s as her being a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Wilker, too, uses baseball as a backdrop in writing about the 70s. The Boston Herald
SynopsisThe 1970s was a decade marked by Vietnam, Watergate, counterculture, sexual liberation, and stadium rock. For author Josh Wilker, it was a time spent navigating a challenging childhood in which only his prized baseball card collection could give him unfailing faith that a winning season would one day present itself. Wilker shares his heartbreakingly comic childhood, set adrift by hippie parents harboring utopian dreams, anchored by brotherly love, and buoyed by an obsession with our national pastime. In pitch-perfect prose, Wilker tells his unconventional story through the cards he collected, whose full-color images--of Mark "The Bird" Fidrych, Tom Seaver, Wade Boggs, and many lesser-known players--open each chapter and become the means for expressing all the fears, hopes, bewilderment, passions, and dreams of childhood. Cardboard Gods announces the arrival of a talented new voice in the stadium of big-league memoirs., An inventive and incredibly moving memoir in which boyhood, baseball, and a bumbling family all collide while running toward home.
