Brad Balukjian (born October 16, 1980) is an American writer and science professor[citation needed]. He is best known for his memoir The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife.[citation needed]
Balukjian grew up in Greenville, Rhode Island[citation needed]. He went to college at Duke University, where he graduated in 2002, and got his PhD in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from UC, Berkeley[citation needed].
He teaches natural history at Merritt College in Oakland, California, where he founded the Natural History & Sustainability program[citation needed].
Career
In 2015, Balukjian opened a pack of unopened baseball cards from 1986 and decided to track down all of the players inside.[1][2] His journey became the memoir The Wax Pack (2020),[3] which went on to become a Los Angeles Times bestseller.[4]
Balukjian said his book was rejected by 38 publishers before the University of Nebraska Press offered him a contract.[5][6]
Balukjian is a freelance writer for The Smithsonian, Alta Online, and other publications. His work includes a science piece about earwig penises for The Smithsonian[7] and decoding the science of the stolen base.[8]
Balukjian's second book, The Six Pack, explores the where are they now story of former WWE wrestlers.[9]
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