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 Through Baseball Cards” is many things: autobiography, portrait of an era, coming-of-age tale, exploration of sibling relationships. But most of all, it is an ode to the baseball card, late 1970s edition, that persistent token of boyhood that somehow, for a brief time in what Wilker calls that “awkward, searching decade,” managed to permeate everything.
Lincoln Mitchell offers his thoughts on the book at FasterTimes.com.
Upshot:
Wilker has written an extraordinarily honest book about growing up and forging adult lives and adult relationships which, while not really about baseball, still made me feel like I was back at an almost empty Candlestick Park watching the Giants lose, playing ball in the Presidio, reading yet another baseball magazine or book and, yes, buying a pack of baseball cards and giving the gum to my brother.
is available on Amazon.com,
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