As you know, I sometimes put together a “Review Roundup” or “Bits and Pieces” entry, collecting a number of items about baseball books, etc.
This time I’m devoting the post to a single author/book: Brad Balukjian and The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife
For some reason, the current situation — turning to various aspects of baseball with no actual baseball being played — brings to mind a scene from the TV series M*A*S*H in which one character asks where there’s such a preoccupation with sex at the 4077 camp. The response: “Lack of occupation with sex.” Just tossing that out there.
Anyway, back to Balukjian… Note that the following features only articles wholly about The Wax Pack and not those in which it might be included as part of a list.
♦ Might as well start off with my own interview with the author in a Bookshelf Conversation.
♦ From Cedar Rapids Gazette: “Brad Balukjian takes a look at post-baseball lives in ‘The Wax Pack’”
♦ A review from the Toronto-centric blog, Bluebirds Banter. And one from TwinkieTown, a similar site for the Minnesota Twins: “Joy, Pain, Failure, Acceptance: Brad Balukjian’s ‘The Wax Pack’”
♦ From Forbes: “Going On The Road To Uncover Post-Baseball Life Of 1980s Players With ‘Wax Pack’ Author Brad Balukjian”
♦ From NYSportsDay: “The Wax Pack: On The Open Road In Search of Baseball’s Afterlife”
♦ From WBBM780 in Chicago: “The Wax Pack: Author Takes To The Open Road In Search Of Baseball’s Afterlife”
♦ FromCBSSportsRadio: “MLB Author: “I Had To Go Rogue” With Carlton Fisk”
♦ From YahooSports: “Q&A: ‘Wax Pack’ author discovers life after baseball with a pack of 1986 Topps”
♦ This audio interview from KHM: “One author, one car, and a pack of baseball cards”
♦ From The Main Edge in Bangor: “Former ballplayers open up in ‘The Wax Pack’”
♦ From Beckett, the source for card collecting: “HOW A RANDOM PACK OF 1986 TOPPS INSPIRED A BOOK ON CARDS, BASEBALL AND LIFE”
♦ From Sports Collectors Daily: “Waxing Nostalgic: Author Visits With Players He Found Inside a Single Pack of 1986 Topps”
♦ From The Shepherd Express in Milwaukee: “Life After Baseball in ‘The Wax Pack’”
♦ A podcast interview from The Hall of Very Good
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