Josh Wilker: 3 books
Benchwarmer
A Sports-Obsessed Memoir of Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
For most of his life, Josh Wilker has been on the sidelines. Spending his days in a cubicle in the far reaches of Chicago, and his nights in front of Red Sox games, he has been content to let others take center stage. From childhood onward, he sought comfort from anxiety and depression in the archival...
Cardboard Gods
An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Cardboard Gods is the memoir of Josh Wilker, a brilliant writer who has marked the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. It also captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game. Along the way, as we...
by Josh Wilker
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
In 1977, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training had a moment in the sun. A glowing junk sculpture of American genres-sports flick, coming-of-age story, family melodrama, after-school special, road narrative-the film cashed in on the previous year’s success of its predecessor, The Bad News Bears....