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Balukjian, Brad.
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Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
Baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Baseball cards -- United States.
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Balukjian, Brad.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
Baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Baseball cards -- United States.
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The wax pack : on the open road in search of
baseball
's afterlife / Brad Balukjian.
by
Balukjian, Brad.
University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
Call #:
796.357092 B198w
Subjects
Baseball
players
--
United
States
--
Biography.
Baseball
--
United
States
--
History
--
20th century.
Baseball
cards
--
United
States
.
ISBN:
9781496218742 (hc.)
Alternate title:
On the open road in search of
baseball
's afterlife
Description:
xv, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"Is there life after
baseball
? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected, a meditation on the loss of innocence and the gift of impermanence, for both Brad Balukjian and the former ballplayers he tracked down. To get a truly random sample of players, Balukjian followed this wildly absurd but fun-as-hell premise: he took a single pack of
baseball
cards
from 1986 (the first year he collected
cards
), opened it, chewed the nearly thirty-year-old gum inside, gagged, and then embarked on a quest to find all the players in the pack. Absurd, maybe, but true. He took this trip solo in the summer of 2015, spanning 11,341 miles through thirty
states
in forty-eight days. Balukjian actively engaged with his subjects, taking a hitting lesson from Rance Mulliniks, watching kung fu movies with Garry Templeton, and going to the zoo with Don Carman. In the process of finding all the players but one, he discovered an astonishing range of experiences and untold stories in their post-baseball lives, and he realized that we all have more in common with ballplayers than we think. While crisscrossing the country, Balukjian retraced his own past, reconnecting with lost loves and coming to terms with his lifelong battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Alternately elegiac and uplifting, The Wax Pack is part
baseball
nostalgia, part road trip travelogue, and all heart, a reminder that greatness is not found in the stats on the backs of
baseball
cards
but in the personal stories of the men on the front of them."--From publisher.
Genre:
Memoirs.
Holds:
1
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