Joe Posnanski

I've written this before, but let me say it again: The following post is personal and, I imagine, of absolutely no interest to anyone except immediate family -- and even a couple of them probably don't have interest. I'm just warning you in advance. You can skip this one. We'll get back to sports, I promise. I write often about Cleveland here because, at heart, I see myself as a Cleveland guy. I was born in Cleveland, raised in Cleveland, saw my first ... Read More

Stan Musial never got thrown out of a game. Never. Think about this for a moment. Musial played in 3,026 games in his career, or about as many as his contemporaries Joe DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky played combined. He played across different American eras -- he played in the big leagues before bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, and he retired a few weeks before Kennedy was shot. He played when Jimmy Dorsey and Glenn Miller ruled the Top 40 charts, and he ... Read More

Sure, I’m fascinated by Tiger Woods. I’m fascinated by him because I cannot figure him out. I have no idea what drives him, what inspires him, what makes him laugh (other than a misplayed chip bouncing into the hole). I don’t know if he’s happy living the most luxurious and public life imaginable, or if happiness is beside the point. I don’t know if he plays otherworldly golf because it’s pivotal to his existence, or because it gives him a high he ... Read More

For fun ... here’s my greatest day in sportswriting: So, this was at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. I mentioned here earlier that the Olympics are like nothing else in sports journalism. You become entirely and inexplicably consumed by the Games, especially at the Summer Olympics where there are always about twenty different things going on at once. It really is hard to explain the absurd enormity being in the middle of it all. From home, I always thought, the Olympics seemed ... Read More

“I would like to create myself, but I'd put myself in as the second baseman for the Big Red Machine. Take Morgan out and put me in. I had to play in Ohio the years that the Big Red Machine were kings and the Indians were like the Double-A team in Ohio. So I want to go right into the Big Red Machine and take over second.“ -- Duane Kuiper in 2003 on putting himself in the EA Sports video game. * * * I ... Read More