A truly fantastic book. What at first appears to be a man recollecting about his baseball cards and offering anecdotes about them soon turns into a story about what happens when the pillars of life erode around you, when certainty wavers and eventually when the pillars you build for yourself i.e. the love of Baseball Cards, The Cardboard Gods themselves erode. It's a story of growth and growing up and the eventual re-discovery and rebuilding of that man made pillar. And most of all it's beautifully written.