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Josh Wilker

* Josh Wilker’s forthcoming book, Benchwarmer: An Anxious Dad’s Almanac of Fatherhood and Other Failures gets a thumbs up from Kirkus. Upshot: “This almanac of fatherhood (and other failures) is honest, relatable and humorous—an indispensable read for fathers (and sons) whose joy in life comes not from winning the big game but being alive to […]

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Bits and pieces, June 12

June 12, 2013

John  Rosengren was recently interviewed in Prime Time Radio to discuss his new bio on Hank Greenberg (audio). BlueJaysBanter, a “subsidiary” of Baseball Nation, posted this review of Jeff Blair’s Full Count: Four Decades of Blue Jays Baseball. David King will sign copies of his new book, Ross Youngs: In Search of a San Antonio Baseball […]

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Wilker was the subject of this interview on WGN-TV yesterday:

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In today’s installment, the missing words are “Baseball cards,” as discussed in this piece from the Sports Illustrated website on Josh Wilker’s book Cardboard Gods, as per Ted Anthony, who writes about American culture for the Associated Press: baseball-card blogger and memoirist Josh Wilker has come through. The unforgettable “Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told […]

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I started this blog because I have always been fascinated with the creative process. Where do and author’s ideas come from? How does he do his research? What obstacles does she have along the way? I have been remiss. It has been brought to my attention that the author is just one part of the […]

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Josh Wilker launched his blog, CardboardGods (Motto: “Voice of the mathematically eliminated”) as a link to a simpler time, when all a boy needed to be happy was a nickle, a dime, or at most a quarter, to buy a pack of baseball cards. For a ten-year-old, these guys were, in fact, gods. All you […]

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