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    Benchwarmer: An Anxious Dad's Almanac of Fatherhood and Other Failures
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    Benchwarmer: An Anxious Dad's Almanac of Fatherhood and Other Failures
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    Benchwarmer: An Anxious Dad's Almanac of Fatherhood and Other Failures

    Written by Josh Wilker

    Narrated by Christopher Lutkin

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    About this audiobook

    For most of his life, Josh Wilker has been on the sidelines. Spending his days in a cubicle in the far reaches of Chicago, and his nights in front of Red Sox games, he has been content to let others take center stage. From childhood onward, he sought comfort from anxiety and depression in the archival pages of sports almanacs and stat sheets: a place where forgotten players lingered, and time seemed to stop - a welcome relief from worldly problems. He found joy in the trivia of long-lost athletes, like the former NFL player Walter 'Sneeze' Achiu. But when his first child was born in 2011, Wilker found his anxieties put to the test: how do you remain on the sidelines when a tender, fragile baby needs everything from you?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateMay 19, 2015
    ISBN9781633799486
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    Benchwarmer: An Anxious Dad's Almanac of Fatherhood and Other Failures
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    Josh Wilker

    Josh Wilker writes about his life and childhood baseball cards at cardboardgods.net. He has an MFA in fiction writing from Vermont College and is a winner of the Howard Frank Mosher Prize for Short Fiction. He lives in Chicago.

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