Effectively Wild Episode 1522: Booking It

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller talk to Brad Balukjian, author of brand-new baseball book The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife, about the long road (figuratively and literally) that led to the book, how he decided to try to track down the players from an old pack of baseball cards, […]

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0:00.0	I didn't do it my between my bops and spokes,
0:02.3	Or leaving them at home under 10, and with my folks
0:04.6	About to save them till I got old
0:07.1	Never tossed, never sold
0:10.9	Flippin', trading, collecting, saving, waiting, hoping, dreaming, praying
0:19.9	Topped up, leared, dawned, lost, bold, and big, big, gone, displayed
0:24.3	I'm so glad my mom and dad didn't throw mine away
0:29.6	Hello and welcome to episode 1522 of Effectively Wild a baseball
0:35.0	Podcast from Damn Graphs presented by our Patreon supporters
0:38.6	I'm the member of the ringer joined by Sam Miller of ESPN Hello Sam
0:42.6	Maybe the baseball is not happening right now, but baseball books are
0:46.4	This is prime time for baseball books coming out
0:49.2	And we are about to speak to the author of one of them
0:52.8	It is out today, April 1st
0:55.2	It is called the Wax Pack
0:56.8	On the open road in search of baseball's afterlife
1:00.0	I read in advance copy, I blurbed it, genuinely
1:03.2	I like the book a lot, and its author is Brad Blutkin
1:08.0	Who joined to SNOW Hello Brad
1:09.6	Hey guys, and Ben you taught me the word
1:12.3	Is it Bill Dungs Roman?
1:13.8	Is that how you say it?
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