Joe Posnanski

“Contemporary sports writing’s biggest star.”*

*The Wall Street Journal

I am entirely unsure how I got to live the life I’m living.

OK, so here’s some of the fun stuff I do.

I write a lot at JoeBlogs, my Substack newsletter.

I also write for Esquire.

My eighth book, WHY WE LOVE FOOTBALL, will be coming out on September 17, published by Dutton Books.

I co-host The PosCast with my friend Michael Schur.

I wrote the movie Generations of the Game, with my friend Jonathan Hock. You can see that at the Baseball Hall of Fame.

I helped my friend Dan McGinn found Honoring America, a non-profit group dedicated to bringing people together and pumping joy into the world.

And, as you can see on the right, I get to hang out with cool people like Dwier Brown, who played Kevin Costner’s father in Field of Dreams. We are standing at the Field of Dreams for the photograph.

I live in Charlotte with my wife Margo. We have two daughters, Elizabeth and Katie, and we have one poodle, Wesley.

To the left is an autographed baseball I received from three-time All-Star reliever Jim Kern. When I was maybe 8 or 9, I got an autograph from Kern, but it was in pencil and I could not find it later.

I wrote about this, and Kern found out and sent me an autographed baseball. On it he wrote: “To Joe. Quit Whining!”

Westley ate this baseball, as you can see. I wait in the hopes that Jim Kern will someday send me another one.