Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker is an American writer. He is best known for his 2010 book, Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards.[1][2] He operates the Cardboard Gods website.[3]

He has contributed to The Los Angeles Review of Books, HuffPost, and Vice.[4][5][6]

Wilker was the 2015 winner of the Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize.[7]

Books

Cardboard Gods was inspired in part by Frederick Exley's A Fan's Notes.[8] It received positive reviews, with Spitball Magazine writing that "Wilker moves us beyond baseball cards as monetary investment to place us inside his Transcendentalist-esque realization of their ability to transcend time and make tangible a golden age of childhood."[9][10] It was nominated for a Casey Award.[11]

In addition to numerous books for children, Wilker is the author of The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training, about the 1977 sequel, and Benchwarmer: A Sports-Obsessed Memoir of Fatherhood, a memoir of sports and parenting.[12][13]

Selected bibliography
  • Cardboard Gods: An All-American Tale Told Through Baseball Cards (2010)
  • The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (2011)[14]
  • Benchwarmer: A Sports-Obsessed Memoir of Fatherhood (2015)

References
  1. Michaud, Jon (March 29, 2011). "Opening-Day Exchange: Josh Wilker" – via www.newyorker.com.
  2. "CARDBOARD GODS by Josh Wilker | Kirkus Reviews" – via www.kirkusreviews.com.
  3. "Cardboard Gods". Cardboard Gods.
  4. "Josh Wilker". Los Angeles Review of Books.
  5. "Josh Wilker | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com.
  6. "Josh Wilker". Vice.
  7. Gault, Miciah Bay (September 28, 2015). "Hunger Mountain Announces Winners of the 2015 Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize". Hunger Mountain.
  8. "These Questions 3: Josh Wilker". ESPN.com. April 23, 2010.
  9. Hanlon, Greg (April 14, 2010). "Through Baseball Cards, a Meditation on Life".
  10. "Baseball Books Reviewed: Cardboard Gods - Spitball Magazine". www.spitballmag.com.
  11. "CASEY Award: Best Baseball Book - Spitball Magazine". www.spitballmag.com.
  12. "Benchwarmer". June 27, 2017 – via www.publicaffairsbooks.com.
  13. "'Benchwarmer' by Josh Wilker - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com.
  14. "Josh Wilker". November 2, 2015.
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