Benchwarmer

Written by Josh Wilker

Narrated by Chris Lutkin

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: May 19, 2015
• ISBN: 9781666585940

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.