Cardboard Gods - Softcover

Wilker connects baseball cards to more pop culture references than a season of Family Guy everything from Louis L Amour westerns to Jack Kerouac to Elvis Costello . . . You ll love this book. Minneapolis Star Tribune
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I couldn t put it down . . . In much the same way Doris Kearns Goodwin s Wait Till Next Year is as much about growing up in the 1950s as her being a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Wilker, too, uses baseball as a backdrop in writing about the 70s. The Boston Herald"

"Wilker connects baseball cards to more pop culture references than a season of Family Guy--everything from Louis L'Amour westerns to Jack Kerouac to Elvis Costello . . . You'll love this book." --Minneapolis Star Tribune
"I couldn't put it down . . . In much the same way Doris Kearns Goodwin's Wait Till Next Year is as much about growing up in the 1950s as her being a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Wilker, too, uses baseball as a backdrop in writing about the '70s." --The Boston Herald

Captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game as the author marks the stages of his life through the cards he collected as a child.