Comments on: Cardboard Books bulletin: Boyd and Harris found!

By: Martin Roche

Martin Roche — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:30:01 +0000

About ten years ago I first read excerpts on Sox trading cards from Boyd and Harris in Dan Riley’s Red Sox Reader, thinking that they wrote exclusively on Red Sox players. Then I found an old library book edition sold second hand. I had never considered writing about the most important memories I had as a fan in that way. It’s an original, but your blog has been a great extension on the tradition, Josh.

By: bjoura

bjoura — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:06:39 +0000

This is a great book. The only complaint is the odd size. But for anyone who has not read it – it really is worth searching out. It certainly helps if you know the players from the 1950s and 1960s but it is by no means necessary.

By: Ted Cogswell

Ted Cogswell — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:54:33 +0000

Their book was in fact the very reason I found your blog.

I was thinking that writing about players based on their BB cards like they did would be a great concept for a blog, then I got searchin. That search led me to Cardboard Gods.

The Boyd/Harris book was HUGE for me and my friends as kids, and the copy I found at a garage sale a few years ago is one of my most prized possessions.

By: catfish326

catfish326 — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:53:42 +0000

I have to get this book.

By: ramblinpete

ramblinpete — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:18:04 +0000

One of my favorite BOOKS, period, of all time.
I think I was around twelve years old when I first acquired it,
in hardcover, though I don’t remember the details.

However, it’s the type of thing where you can pull it out every few years or so, and enjoy reading parts of it, at random, all over again.
Countless hours of enjoyment from this book, I tell you.
It’s influence on my personal frame of reference is probably right up there with MAD magazine, freeform radio, The Beatles, SCTV, old National Lampoons, punk rock, and the movie ‘Taxi Driver.’