Brad Balukjian The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball`s Afterlife 9781496218742

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Автор: Brad Balukjian
Название: The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball`s Afterlife
ISBN: 9781496218742
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История спорта

Игры с мячом

Бейсбол

ISBN-10: 1496218744
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 280
Вес: 0.50 кг.
Дата издания: 01.04.2020
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 16 photographs
Размер: 231 x 160 x 33
Ключевые слова: History of sport,Baseball, SPORTS & RECREATION / Baseball / History
Подзаголовок: On the open road in search of baseball`s afterlife
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: A Los Angeles Times Best Seller
A 2020 NPR Best Book of the Year

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.

On Balukjian’s trip in the summer of 2015, he spanned 11,341 miles through thirty states in forty-eight days. Actively engaging with his subjects, he took a hitting lesson from Rance Mulliniks, watched kung fu movies with Garry Templeton, and went 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. 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.

Alternately elegiac and uplifting, The Wax Pack is part baseball nostalgia, part road trip travelogue, and all heart, a reminder that greatness is not found in the stats on the backs of baseball cards but in the personal stories of the men on the front of them.
Дополнительное описание:

Author’s Note
Prologue
1. Warming Up
2. Happy Meals
3. Yeager Bombs
4. Camp Templeton
5. Houston, We Have a Problem
6. Ready Is Ready
7. Carman’s Cradle
8. The Battery
9. Chasing

The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball`s Afterlife, Brad Balukjian