There are quite a few different things we’d like to revisit from our childhood, but chief among them is our adolescent love of cracking open fresh wax packs of baseball cards. There’s just something about a newly opened collection of fifteen cardboard ball players and a stick of bubblegum that will always take us back to our formative years. That’s where author Brad Balukjian’s The Wax Pack book comes in. Balukjian had this crazy idea for the book–what if he opened a pack of cards from his childhood and tried to track down all the players on them? As they put it–“To get a truly random sample of players, Balukjian followed this wildly absurd but fun-as-hell premise: he took a single pack of baseball cards from 1986 (the first year he collected cards), opened it, chewed the nearly thirty-year-old gum inside, gagged, and then embarked on a quest to find all the players in the pack. Absurd, maybe, but true. He took this trip solo in the summer of 2015, spanning 11,341 miles through thirty states in forty-eight days.” It seems like absolute insanity, but in practice, it’s the kind of things that dreams are made of. The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife will be released on April 1st this year.
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Huckberry’s Essential Holiday Gift Guide
Unzip your coat and have some mulled wine on the house—you’ve arrived at your final gifting destination: The Holiday Gift Guide. It’s like your friendly neighborhood one-stop holiday shop, except instead of balsa wood ornaments, ours is packed with thoughtful gifts for everyone on your list. Future heirlooms, small-but-significant stocking stuffers, and gear for getting out there (or staying in)—are all right here. There’s no music playing in the background though, so you’ll just have to hum Bing Crosby while you click around instead.
