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Wax Pack : On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife, Hardcover by B...
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- ISBN
- 9781496218742
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Wax Pack: on the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Genre
- Sports
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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A Los Angeles Times Best Seller A 2020 NPR Best Book of the Year 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. On Balukjian's trip in the summer of 2015, he spanned 11,341 miles through thirty states in forty-eight days. Actively engaging with his subjects, he took a hitting lesson from Rance Mulliniks, watched kung fu movies with Garry Templeton, and went 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. 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.
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University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13
9781496218742
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Book Title
The Wax Pack: on the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Sports
Number of Pages
280 Pages
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Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
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United States
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