| #508164 in Books | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill | 2011-03-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.75 x6.06l,.85 | File type: PDF | 243 pages | Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The personal semiotics of baseball cards|By Nicholas R.W. Henning|Life presented Josh Wilker with many changes and challenges, yet baseball was a constancy, and his card collection was a positive compass. When nothing else made sense baseball did, and even when he thought he had moved on from the game it had not moved on from him. What seemed like childhood passion for the spor||"A baseball-loving loner deciphers his complicated childhood through his old box of trading cards. . . . Wilker's book is as nostalgically intoxicating as the gum that sweetened his card-collecting youth. [Grade:] A" --Entertainment Weekly<
The 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 ...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Cardboard Gods | Josh Wilker.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
