Carboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told through Baseball Cards Audiobook (Free)

Cardboard Godsis the memoir of Josh Wilker, an excellent writer who has marked the stages ofhis lifestyle through the football cards he collected while a child. It also capturesthe experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what itmeans to be always a fan of the game. Along the way, as we become familiar with Josh, hisfamily, and his close friends, we also obtain Josh’s traditional observations about thecentral artifacts from his life-the football cards themselves.

Josh writes about an imagined correspondence with hisfavorite participant, Carl Yastrzemski; he uses the marvelous bubble-blowing power ofjourneyman Kurt Bevacqua to shed light on the weakening from the powerfulchildhood relationship with his older brother; he considers the doomed utopianback-to-the-land dreams of his hippie parents against the background ofinimitable 1970s football figures such as for example pinch runner Herb Washington and Tag”The Parrot” Fidrych. Cardboard Gods ismore than just the storyplot of a man who can’t let go of his previous, it’s proofthat-to paraphrase Jim Bouton-as kids we grow up holding football cards,but that in the end, we recognize it’s actually the other way around.