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Cardboard Gods
Wilker marks the stages of his life through the baseball cards he collected as a child. He captures the experience of growing up obsessed with baseball cards and explores what it means to be a fan of the game.
Benchwarmer
A moving, funny, inventive parenting memoir, written in a surprising form: an encyclopedia of failure in sports What can a new father learn about parenthood from reading sports almanacs? For most dads, the answer to this question is: nothing. But to Josh Wilker, whose life and writing have been defined by sports fandom, all of the joy, helplessness, and absurdity of parenthood are present between the lines. After all, what better way to think about losing control than Eugenio Velez's forty-five consecutive at-bats without a hit? How better to understand ridiculous joy than the NFL career of Walter Achiu, whose nickname was "Sneeze"? In the stories of sports figures large and small, Wilker fi...
Confucius
A biography of the Chinese teacher and sage whose teachings influenced all aspects of Chinese life for many centuries after his death.
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
In 1977, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training had a moment in the sun. A glowing junk sculpture of American genres—sports flick, coming-of-age story, family melodrama, after-school special, road narrative—the film cashed in on the previous year’s success of its predecessor, The Bad News Bears. Arguing against the sequel’s dismissal as a cultural afterthought, Josh Wilker lovingly rescues from the oblivion of cinema history a quintessential expression of American resilience and joy. Rushed into theaters by Paramount when the beleaguered film industry was suffering from “acute sequelitis,” the (undeniably flawed) movie miraculously transcended its limitations to become a gatheri...
Wayne Gretzky
An account of the famous Edmonton Oiler and his ability that shattered every major single season scoring mark in the NHL record book.
A False Spring
“One of the best and truest books about baseball, and about coming to maturity in America.” —Time In the late 1950s, acclaimed sportswriter Pat Jordan was a young pitching phenom, blowing away opposing batters for his Fairfield, Connecticut, high school baseball team. Fifteen major league clubs offered him a contract, but it was the Milwaukee Braves who won out, signing Jordan to a $45,000 bonus—one of the largest paid to any new player by the organization—and shipping him off to McCook, Nebraska, to play for their Class D ball club. It did not take long, however, for Jordan to realize he was out of his depth in professional baseball’s backwoods. He battled with inconsistency and a lack of control for three dismal seasons in such far-flung locales as Keokuk, Iowa, and Palatka, Florida, before the Braves released him and he gave up his dreams of big league greatness. Declared “unforgettable” by the Los Angeles Times and “a major triumph” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, A False Spring is a powerful and deeply affecting memoir about the gift of athletic talent and the heartbreak of unfulfilled promise.
Joshua's Ring
Joshua Wilker didn't want to die. He didn't want to be known for miracles. He didn't want to do anything more remarkable than any other boy would. He just wanted to live an ordinary life, with the normal dreams of every boy-the typical desires, concerns, and hopes of every boy. His parents didn't want him to die. The only miracle they looked for was one that would save his life and make him well so that he could live and grow to manhood. This is a story that is told too often by too many parents of children who are diagnosed with life-threatening disease and lose their battle against death. Yet this story, perhaps like others, has a rather remarkable outcome...not an ending, but a continuation. In the end it is a testament that these children didn't lose to death, but triumphed over it. Joshua's Ring is a story about courage, strength, truth, faith, and the power of love even after death.
The Harlem Globetrotters
A dynamic look at the world-famous basketball wizards who have been mesmerizing fans since the 1920s. Includes 50 photos from every era of the team's fascinating history.
The Lenape Indians
Examines the history, culture, and future prospects of the Lenape (also known as Delaware) Indians.
The Harlem Renaissance
Recounts the vibrant personalities and remarkable cultural movements that flourished in America's leading Black community during the 1920s and 1930s.
