About Joe

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

Joe Posnanski is a Senior Writer at Sports Illustrated. He was sports columnist at The Kansas City Star from 1996 to 2009, and during that time he was twice named the best sports columnist in America by The Associated Press Sports Editors. He was also nominated for twenty-one awards by the APSE, and won additional first place national awards in feature and project writing. Joe continues to write columns for The Star.

He has written three books, the latest, called The Machine: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, will be released on 09/09/09. He previously wrote “The Good Stuff,” a collection of columns, and “The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America,” which won the prestigious Casey Award as the best baseball book of 2007. He has written essays for several books, including The Hardball Times Annual, ESPN’s best-selling College Football Encyclopedia and Football and Philosophy. His work twice has been anthologized in “The Best American Sportswriting.”

Joe previously worked as sports columnist for The Cincinnati Post and The Augusta Chronicle, and started his career as a multi-use reporter and editor at The Charlotte Observer. Joe grew up in Cleveland, and now lives in Kansas City with his wife, Margo, and their two daughters, Elizabeth and Katie.

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