Brad Balukjian
Auteur van The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife
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Fotografie: Released for publicity use
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The way the author describes opening the pack, and the taste and texture of that nasty pink "gum", just opened up a floodgate of memories for me! All good! And then, his idea for this book, to find the 14 players on the cards in the pack! (it'd be 15, but one of the cards was a checklist, which I personally hated when I got one!) He calls that group, the Wax Packers!
It's a bummer that the "well known" players from the pack couldn't be bothered to make time for this book, and I wanted to know more about Steve Yeager, but this is one cool project! Doubly cool that the "lesser know" players were so forthcoming and real! And along his journey, the author gets to play catch with his childhood baseball “idol of idols”, former Phillies pitcher Don Carman! How cool is that? I know I'd have freaked out!
Thanks for the good read Mr. Balukjian! I'll keep on the lookout for you in "our" church, in "our" pew, when I get back to the Coliseum after this COVID mess clears up! Play ball!… (meer)