Brad Balukjian

Brad Balukjian (born October 16, 1980) is an American writer and science professor. He is best known for his memoir The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife.

Background

Balukjian grew up in Greenville, Rhode Island. He went to college at Duke University, where he graduated in 2002, and got his PhD in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from UC, Berkeley.

He teaches natural history at Merritt College in Oakland, California, where he is the director of the Natural History & Sustainability program.

Career

In 2015, Balukjian opened a pack of unopened baseball cards from 1986 and decided to track down all of the players inside.[1][2] His journey became the memoir The Wax Pack (2020),[3] which went on to become a Los Angeles Times bestseller.[4]

Balukjian said his book was rejected by 38 publishers before the University of Nebraska Press offered him a contract.[5][6]

References
  1. Wong, Wong (September 9, 2015). "Wax Pack: One Man's Road Trip to Track down Every Player from a Pack of Baseball Cards". Vice.
  2. Wittenmyer, Gordon (May 27, 2020). "How a random pack of old baseball cards made the LA Times bestseller list". NBC Sports.
  3. "'The Wax Pack' chronicles baseball card-fueled road trip". USA Today. May 2, 2020.
  4. The California Independent Booksellers Alliance (May 18, 2020). "Best Sellers List Sun., May 17, 2020". Los Angeles Times.
  5. Finn, Chad (May 22, 2020). "Brad Balukjian's baseball book was rejected 38 times. How he finally brought 'The Wax Pack' to life". Boston.com.
  6. Anderson, RJ (May 20, 2020). "Author of 'The Wax Pack' discusses his card-based journey and the search for baseball's afterlife". CBS Sports.
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