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Author Balukjian, Brad, author

Title The wax pack : on the open road in search of baseball's afterlife / Brad Balukjian
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2020

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Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Prologue -- 1. Warming Up -- 2. Happy Meals -- 3. Yeager Bombs -- 4. Camp Templeton -- 5. Houston, We Have a Problem -- 6. Randy Is Ready -- 7. Carman's Cradle -- 8. The Battery -- 9. Chasing Carlton -- 10. Leader of the Pack -- 11. Vincent van Gone -- 12. Is It September Yet? -- 13. Nobody Home -- 14. Gone Fishing -- 15. Catching Carlton -- 16. Captain Comeback -- 17. Straight Outta Compton -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Notes
Summary ""The Wax Pack," part baseball nostalgia and part road trip travelogue, follows Brad Balukjian as he tracks down players from a single pack of baseball cards from 1986"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Balukjian, Brad -- Travel -- United States
SUBJECT Balukjian, Brad -- Travel -- United States
Subject Baseball players -- United States -- Biography
Baseball -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Baseball cards -- United States
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Baseball -- History.
Baseball
Baseball cards
Baseball players
Travel
United States
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781496221520
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9781496221506
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