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Josh Wilker
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author of Cardboard Gods, Benchwarmer, The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training

https://cardboardgods.net/
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I'm a reviser, with words, with memories, with reality. In my mind since the game I didn't want to end ended, Alejandro Kirk drops down a stunning, game-tying bunt. It could have worked! I've seen it work! Muggsy Allenson did it! Continue ridiculous game!
Screenshot of penultimate moment of 2025, showing Dodgers infielders playing very deep for the double play
November 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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And not for nothing
No kings protest march in Chicago, signs and American flags above the heads of marchers, a sign at the center reading You sucked in Home Alone 2
October 19, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Chewbacca always knows the right thing to say #Chicago #NoKings
Protest sign showing Chewbacca saying uhuur hurry aaahr hraawwwr rrrwwgg!!! Protest sign showing Han Solo saying you're right, Chewie, this is the worst administration in the galaxy
October 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Took my son to @freelancewrestling.bsky.social last night. The first thing he said afterward: "That was the most awesome thing I've ever done."
October 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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The great Bill Lee holding court after a screening of the excellent recent baseball flick Eephus. Got to say hello afterward, but even better was when Bill's longhaired grandson chased down my son and me as we were leaving to introduce himself and tell my longhaired son to "keep growing the hair"
Bill Lee smiling as he tells a story
July 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Sighting of the great book Our Team by @lukeepplin.bsky.social at the Evanston library
Photo of Luke Epplin book Our Team recommended by librarian at Evanston library
May 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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For me, Immaculate Grid is always a little bit about the guy you can't quite remember. Today, for me, the name just beyond the border of thought was the first mentioned in this, one of the greatest sentences in American Literature: "If Mike de la Hoz is not Bob Del Greco, who, if anybody, is he?"
Page from The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book, featuring Mike de la Hoz and Bob Del Greco
April 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Last page of The Great American Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book
April 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Today's amazing Immaculate Grid gave me a chance to pay tribute to that classic and hilarious work, The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book
Immaculate Grid game with players featured in The Great American Baseball Card Flipping, Trading and Bubble Gum Book
April 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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My happy place
Josh Wilker shooting a jump shot in Roger's Park
March 31, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Looks like AI companies stole my (and many others') work. Search authors here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Screenshot showing results of a search of books by Josh Wilker used without permission by AI companies: Cardboard Gods, Benchwarmer, and The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
March 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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I was just looking at mine today. The top guys, besides Dewey, connect teams I don't know that deeply. No surprise that "expansion team hail mary" Edwin Jackson is in the mix.
Immaculate Grid displaying most used players, including Gaylord Perry, Dwight Evans, Oscar Gamble, and Bobby Bonds
March 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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US flag hanging upside down in Yosemite National Park
February 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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I tried to go all Red Sox but had to pull in some ringers (and afterward saw I could have hit my intended mark by adding Sparky Lyle, Cy Young, and Eck to the mix)
Immaculate Grid from February 22 with Tiant, Seaver, Jenkins, Cone, Clemens, Waddell, Koufax, Pedro, Sutter
February 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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In the story of my life that I told card by card, I leaned heavily on Rickey. RIP to a guy I thought would be around forever.
Page from Cardboard Gods Page from Cardboard Gods
December 21, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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Picture of a middle-aged white guy in a t-shirt that says I'd rather be reading
December 20, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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He's my "most often in error" choice in @immaculategrid.com. I can't stop thinking he played for the Twins, for some reason, or the Mariners, for this reason:
1977 baseball card of Kurt Bevacqua as a Seattle Mariner
December 16, 2024 at 5:18 PM
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Office - Breaking Bad crossover on the mantle
Mini figures from the office on front of a mini RV from Breaking Bad
December 12, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 20

#Books
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Cover of The Bronx Zoo by Sparky Lyle and Peter Golenbock with a baseball with a mustache at the center
December 10, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 19

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Copy of About Harry Towns by Bruce Jay Friedman
December 9, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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Cooperstown is where the flavor is
Dick Allen smoking a heater Dave Parker smoking a heater
December 9, 2024 at 1:29 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 18

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Paperback copy of Pastoralia by George Saunders
December 8, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 17

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Paperback copy of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
December 7, 2024 at 2:31 PM
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'96 Gilkey is currently tearing it up for my Strat-O-Matic online All-Time Greats team
Screenshot of Strat-O-Matic online league batting leaders highlighting Bernard Gilkey's spot near the top of the list, behind only Mickey Mantle
December 6, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

Day 16

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Frayed paperback copy of Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac on a blanket by a shorthair Calico cat
December 6, 2024 at 2:25 PM