Joe Posnanski, Author . Morrow $24.95 (276p) ISBN 978-0-06-085403-4
Posnanski, sports columnist for the Kansas City Star
, spent a year on the road with the iconic Negro Leagues player and manager Buck O'Neil (1911–2006), recording the magnanimous 94-year-old's encounters with scores of fans and his...
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Joe Posnanski. Simon & Schuster, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4516-5749-4
Between bouts of coughing and wheezing, the late Joe Paterno told Sports Illustrated senior writer Posnanski (The Soul of Baseball), "You picked a hell of a time to write about a football coach." Indeed, the author had relocated to State College,...
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Joe Posnanski. Simon & Schuster, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6643-0
Posnanski, author of the bestselling Paterno, explores the relationship of golf greats Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus, as well as each man’s personal connection to the game of golf. A former sportswriter for the Kansas City Star, Posnanski has an...
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Joe Posnanski. Avid Reader, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-1-5011-3723-5
Legendary escape artist Harry Houdini used showmanship, bombast, and a bit of fraud to concoct magic that still inspires, according to this starry-eyed biography. Sports Illustrated columnist Posnanski (The Soul of Baseball) gives a brisk, episodic...
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Joe Posnanski, read by Joe Mantegna. Simon & Schuster Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-44-235549-1
The controversy surrounding the recently deceased, legendary Penn State football coach and his role in the cover-up of a child sex abuse case involving former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky is the focus of Posnanski's biography—though the book...
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Joe Posnanski. Avid Reader, $40 (848p) ISBN 978-1-982180-58-4
Sportswriter Posnanski (The Soul of Baseball) knocks it out of the park with this fascinating deep dive into the careers of those he considers baseball’s 100 greatest players. By including players from every era, as well as athletes only allowed to...
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Joe Posnanski. Dutton, $29 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-47267-5
Journalist Posnanski (The Baseball 100) hits it out of the park in this rousing celebration of baseball. With the colorful banter of a play-by-play announcer (“You had a titan on the mound, a folk hero at the plate—yes, this is certainly why we love
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Joe Posnanski. Dutton, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-593-47552-2
In the ebullient follow-up to 2023’s Why We Love Baseball, journalist Posnanski rolls the highlight reel on the most memorable plays to ever grace the gridiron. The recaps mix the humorous and the heartfelt, describing Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez’s
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