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For the majority of his life, Josh Wilker has been on the sidelines. Spending his times in a cubicle in the very far gets to of Chicago and his nights before Red Sox game titles, he has been content to let others take center stage. From child years onward he wanted comfort from stress and anxiety and depression in the archival internet pages of sports activities almanacs and stat mattress sheets: a location where neglected players lingered and time seemed to stop - a pleasant relief from worldly problems. He found delight in the trivia of long-lost sports athletes, like the past NFL player Walter "Sneeze" Achiu. But when his first child was born in 2011, Wilker found his anxieties put to the test: How do you stick to the sidelines whenever a tender, fragile baby needs from you?