As part of our Memorabilia and Collecting week, we reached out to Brad Balukjian, author of The Wax Pack. He graciously allowed us to run two excerpts of the freshly-minted L.A. Times best-seller. The ...

Brad Balukjian was sitting in the upper deck at an Oakland A’s game a few years ago, when a mixture of adventure and nostalgia sent him down an unexpected path. He ordered a pack of 1986 Topps ...

NEW YORK — Brad Balukjian tore open a pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards, chewed the stale, brittle bubblegum and then planned a road trip most sports fans could only dream about. The college biology ...

Brad Balukjian’s concept for his first book — tear open a pack of 1986 Topps baseball cards, chomp the ancient pink rectangle of gum-ish substance, then hit the road to unwrap the post-baseball lives ...

As a kid growing up in the 1980s, Worth Wollpert spent his weekends hitting trading card shows in the Cleveland suburbs. He collected, and often traded, all sorts of cards, especially the 1984-85 ...