1988 Topps

Don Carman (#415)

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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. 

THIS BOOK IS 1988 TOPPS PODCAST CANON. BUY IT NOW.

  • Card on Beckett
  • Book excerpt from the chapter about Don (The Athletic $)
  • 89 Phillies Post-Mortem 
  • 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 Club 


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