Joe Posnanski has been sports columnist at The Kansas City Star since 1996. He has twice been named the best sports columnist in America by The Associated Press Sports Editors. He has also been nominated for fifteen awards by the APSE, and has won first place national awards in feature and project writing.

 

He has written two books, “The Good Stuff,” a collection of columns, and “The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America,” which was named one of the ten best sports books of 2007 by Booklist. He has written essays for several books, including ESPN’s best-selling College Football Encyclopedia, and his work has been anthologized in “The Best American Sportswriting.”

 

He was a sports columnist at The Cincinnati Post from 1994-1996, and before that he wrote columns for The Augusta Chronicle. He began his career at The Charlotte Observer. He grew up in Cleveland, and now lives in Kansas City with his wife, Margo, and their two daughters, Elizabeth and Katie.