About Joe

Posted: October 5th, 2007 | Filed under: Baseball | 34 Comments »

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. As his mother says, that and about four bucks could get him a Grande Mocha at Starbucks.

Joe started this blog to promote his book “The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America,” winner of the prestigious 2007 Casey Award as baseball book of the year. Soul was also named one of the ten best sports books of 2007 by Booklist, was called engaging and spirit-lifting by Sports Illustrated and was given a B+ by Entertainment Weekly, which was considerably better than Joe did in most of his English classes. Joe has written essays for several books, including ESPN’s best-selling College Football Encyclopedia and an upcoming book on football and philosophy called, uniquely, “Football and Philosophy.” His work has been anthologized in “The Best American Sportswriting.”

Joe is currently at work on a book about the 1975 Cincinnati Reds tentatively called “The Machine.” Well, no, he’s CURRENTLY at work writing some stupid blog post about the old game show Passworld Plus or Pam Dawber or he’s creating some stupid baseball statistic. But he SHOULD be working on the book.

Joe was a sports columnist at The Cincinnati Post and The Augusta Chronicle, and he began his career at The Charlotte Observer. Joe grew up in Cleveland, where he idolized Duane Kuiper, and he now lives in Kansas City with his wife, Margo, and their two daughters, Elizabeth and Katie. This blog is a look into his confused mind.