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CARDBOARD GODS: AN ALL-AMERICAN TALE TOLD THROUGH BASEBALL By Josh Wilker *Mint*
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- Condizione
- Come Nuovo
- Note del venditore
- ISBN-10
- 1934734160
- Publication Name
- Seven Footer Press
- Type
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781934734162
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Seven Footer Press
ISBN-10
1934734160
ISBN-13
9781934734162
eBay Product ID (ePID)
78400057
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cardboard Gods : an All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Baseball / General, Sports Cards / Baseball, Sports
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography, Antiques & Collectibles
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
24.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Josh Wilker'sCardboard Godsis a poignant and vivid account of how and why he accessed baseball cards as a survival tool while negotiating a 1970s childhood marked by changing mores and confusing mixed messages. This is a story of brotherly love, survival of the also-ran, and the hope that quickens a kid's heartbeat each time he rips open a fresh pack of baseball cards, gets a whiff of bubble gum, and, holding his breath, sees who he's got as opposed to who and what he needs. If you love the writing of Dave Eggers or Augusten Burroughs, you just may love Josh Wilker'sCardboard Gods, too. I did." --Wally Lamb,New York Timesbestselling author ofShe's Come UndoneandThe Hour I First Believed "Josh Wilker writes as beautifully about baseball and life as anyone ever has." --Rob Neyer, ESPN "This is a story, at its heart, about growing up in America. More specifically it's about growing up at a time when country, author, and the great American game of baseball were simultaneously in a state of flux. Hippies, post-Watergate Nixonites, parents, kids, teens, and even baseball, forever altered with the introduction of free agency, all grasping at a murky, anxious future. Josh Wilker, using seemingly random baseball cards pulled from his childhood, and the memories and metaphors they invoke, guides us through the restless and awkward story of his life (so far) with grace, pain, and ultimately vindication. In short, it's a story about baseball and America and his (our) generation." --David Cross, actor, comedian, and author ofI Drink for a Reason "Cardboard Godsis more than just a book. It is something that I lived and live still. I was the older brother. I live on Route 14 like Josh once did. My two sons were those boys in the picture, VW bus and all.Cardboard Godsawakened feelings in me that I have long suppressed. It is a growth book, likeCatcher in the Rye. People, especially people who love baseball, will carry this book with them everywhere." --Bill Lee, bestselling author ofThe Wrong Stuff, Red Sox legend, baseball bat entrepreneur "A warm, rich and funny recollection of one American boyhood as viewed through the unimpeachable prism of baseball cards. Literate, nostalgic and sneaky fast." --Brendan Boyd, author ofGreat American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book "Every baseball card is a story, a player, a history eroding. Josh Wilker understands this profoundly, and scrambles to bring those stories, his stories, to life in uproarious and moving fashion. Just don't put this book in your bike spokes." --Will Leitch, author ofGod Save the Fan,New Yorkmagazine contributing editor, Deadspin.com founding editor "Josh Wilker has pulled of as nifty of double play as Tinkers-Evers-and-Chance ever executed inCardboard Gods, reimagining the baseball cards of his youth and effortlessly turning them into a lamp to shine on his own memories in this fascinating read." --Bert Randolph Sugar, author ofBert Sugar's Baseball Hall of Fame: A Living History of America's Greatest Game "To say Josh Wilker writes beautifully about baseball, or boyhood-as he does-is to halve his ample achievement. Like Frederick Exley'sA Fan's Notes,Cardboard Godsnails the worshipful contortions and rueful ecstasies of fandom, and its pure dexterity with memory amounts to an athletic event of its own. Evocative, painful, affectionate and funny,Cardboard Godsis astonishing. Like Henry Aaron's home run ball described herein, Wilker's book wears its own ha
Synopsis
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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