Effectively Wild Episode 1522: Booking It

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, his favorite encounter with one of the pack’s former major leaguers, and what he learned about life from his journey, then try to predict which active major leaguers are most likely to end up in various post-playing professions. Lastly (49:06), Ben talks to Rob Taylor, senior acquisitions editor at the University of Nebraska Press (which published The Wax Pack), about how UNP became a baseball publishing powerhouse, the economics of baseball books, and how to get a baseball book deal. Audio intro: The Baseball Project, "The Baseball Card Song" Audio interstitial: Ezra Furman, "Good Book" Audio outro: Moe, "Nebraska" Link to The Wax Pack website Link to The Wax Pack book listing Link to Pandemic Baseball Book Club Link to Vogelbach article Link to Suter video Link to Suter post Link to Brewers Dumb and Dumber parody Link to UNP baseball book sale page Link to UNP history page Link to UNP proposal format Link to NYT article about UNP Link to order The MVP Machine  iTunes Feed (Please rate and review us!)  Sponsor Us on Patreon  Facebook Group  Effectively Wild Wiki  Twitter Account  Get Our Merch!  Email Us: [email protected] var SERVER_DATA = Object.assign(SERVER_DATA || {}); Source