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Lädt ... Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards (Original 2010; 2010. Auflage)von Josh Wilker (Autor)
Werk-InformationenCardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards von Josh Wilker (2010)
  
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Biography & Autobiography.
Sports & Recreations.
Nonfiction.
HTML: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 get to know Josh, his family, and his friends, we also get Josh??s classic observations about the central artifacts from his life: the baseball cards themselves. Josh writes about an imagined correspondence with his favorite player, Carl Yastrzemski; he uses the magical bubble-blowing powers of journeyman Kurt Bevacqua to shed light on the weakening of the powerful childhood bond with his older brother; he considers the doomed utopian back-to-the-land dreams of his hippie parents against the backdrop of inimitable 1970s baseball figures such as ??Designated Pinch Runner? Herb Washington and Mark ??The Bird? Fidrych. Cardboard Gods is more than just the story of a man who can??t let go of his past, it??s proof that ?? to paraphrase Jim Bouton ?? as children we grow up holding baseball cards but in the end we realize that it?? Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Another problem I had with this book was the feeling that the baseball card link was used as too much of a gimmick. Like I said, I haven't read any of his stuff before, so it is possible that the baseball cards did really represent cardboard gods, whom he still reveres to this day, but as a casual reader just picking up this book, it came across as very gimmicky. The links from the authors life to the baseball card leading off the chapter, while sometimes proving to be very interesting and informational (Herb Washington for example), sometimes seemed very forced. Like psychic readings, and Nostradamus's predictions, the link from life story to baseball card feels very generalized, and if you look hard enough you could find some card to fit any life experience, or some life experience to match a specific card.
My third problem with this book is that, it feels like, just as the chapter is getting good, and we are building up to a great conclusion, the chapter just kind of ends. I don't know if that is done intentionally, letting the reader glean their own conclusions, or whatever, but I am not a big fan of that premise. I do not want to try to figure out what I "get" from the book, it is your life story, tell me what happens next.
I feel like I am being very harsh to this book, but it really wasn't all bad. It was well written. It was enjoyable. Like I said before, it was loaded with interesting facts and anecdotes. It was very well reviewed by most other people that I have seen. I guess it just wasn't really for me. (