The Wax Pack Lib/E: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife by Balukjian, Brad
The Wax Pack Lib/E: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife by Balukjian, Brad

The Wax Pack Lib/E: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife

Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something...
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Author: Brad Balukjian
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The Wax Pack Lib/E: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife by Balukjian, Brad

The Wax Pack Lib/E: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife

$41.50
The Wax Pack Lib/E: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife by Balukjian, Brad

The Wax Pack Lib/E: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife

$41.50
Author: Brad Balukjian
Format: CD
Language: English
Description
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. Absurd, maybe, but true. He took this trip solo in the summer of 2015, spanning 11,341 miles through thirty states in forty-eight days. Balukjian actively engaged with his subjects--taking a hitting lesson from Rance Mulliniks, watching kung fu movies with Garry Templeton, and going 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, and he realized that we all have more in common with ballplayers than we think. 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.

Author: Brad Balukjian
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Published: 05/12/2020
Binding Type: CD
ISBN: 9798200252862

About the Author
Balukjian, Brad: - Brad Balukjian is director of the Natural History and Sustainability Program and teaches biology at Merritt College in Oakland, California. He is also a freelance writer and has published articles in Rolling Stone, the Los Angeles Times, National Geographic, Slate, Discover, Smithsonian, Natural History, NOVA Next, and Islands.

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