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 ...
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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.
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Very Good. in /Very Good. jacket. Size: 9x6x1; *AUTOGRAPHED/SIGNED* by author Josh Wilker with personalized inscription and note to Steve in black felt tip ink on the title page. VG/VG. Red jacket spine with red and blue illustrated front jacket, dust jacket in archival plastic protector, approx. 9.25'' x 6.25'', few small creases to jacket edges, squared spine, inner pages are clean and in very good condition. Once Read Books, cover scan available-just ask, OnceReadBooks comOrders shipped via USPS.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 243 p. Contains: Illustrations, color. Audience: General/trade. 1st edition 2010 with DJ. Inscribed by Author. Book is LIKE NEW. No other marks or writing. DJ shows light wear. NO BUBBLE GUM
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Advance Reader's Copy. Rare limited softcover printing issued before publication. The pages of the text are clean, crisp, and unmarked. No creasing along the spine, and no bent page corners. Pages have some light age tanning at the edges. The book is in near like new condition. All items guaranteed, and a portion of each sale supports social programs in Los Angeles. Ships from CA.
