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Podcast: 1988 Topps
Episode: Don Carman (#415)
Description: What happens when you drive across the country to meet your childhood hero, and it turns out he's—gasp—a human being?!
With special guest, Dr. Brad Balukjian, author of The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife.Â
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Card on Beckett
Book excerpt from the chapter about Don (The Athletic $)
89 Phillies Post-MortemÂ
Don's list of canned answers to boring news reporter questions
Don answers his fan mail, 15 years later
The Wax Pack Book on Twitter
Pandemic Baseball Book ClubÂ