Cardboard Gods

The 1970s was a decade marked by Vietnam, Watergate, counterculture, sexual liberation, and stadium rock. For author Josh Wilker, it was a time spent navigating a challenging childhood in which only his prized baseball card collection could give him unfailing faith that a winning season would one day present itself.<br><br>Wilker shares his heartbreakingly comic childhood, set adrift by hippie parents harboring utopian dreams, anchored by brotherly love, and buoyed by an obsession with our national pastime. In pitch-perfect prose, Wilker tells his unconventional story through the cards he collected, whose full-color images -- of Mark &quot;The Bird&quot; Fidrych, Tom Seaver, Wade Boggs, and many lesser-known players -- open each chapter and become the means for expressing all the fears, hopes, bewilderment, passions, and dreams of childhood. <i>Cardboard Gods </i>announces the arrival of a talented new voice in the stadium of big-league memoirs.