Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife

by Brad Balukjian

Book Overview

A Los Angeles Times Best Seller
A 2020 NPR Best Book of the Year

Is there life after baseball? Starting from this simple question, The Wax Pack ends up with something much bigger and unexpected--a meditation on the loss of innocence and the gift of impermanence, for both Brad Balukjian and the former ballplayers he tracked down. To get a truly random sample of players, Balukjian followed this wildly absurd but fun-as-hell...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496218744
• ISBN13: 9781496218742
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.1"