📚 Books by Joe Posnanski
A collection of bestsellers and award-winning stories about sports, magic, and meaning.
📘 Why We Love Football
A History in 100 Moments
“Brilliant writing and research unearths gems and perspectives that bring the game and its characters to life. Readers will find themselves laughing out loud.” — Associated Press
🏆 National Bestseller
📘 Why We Love Baseball
A History in 50 Moments
“You can allow yourself the sentiment of loving a sport and getting this sense that, 'Oh my God, I love baseball so much.' I have choked up multiple times while reading this book.” — NPR
🏆 New York Times Bestseller
🏆 Winner 2022 Casey Award
📘 The Baseball 100
“It's a big, fat orgy of baseball goodness.” — Esquire when ranking The Baseball 100 one of the 100 greatest baseball books ever written.
🏆 New York Times Bestseller
🏆 Winner 2020 Casey Award
📘 The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
“Enthralling ... This is a first-class book, a subtle stretching of the biographical form that is also superbly readable.” — The Times (London)
📘 The Secret of Golf
> “Joe Posnanski is a Hall of Fame writer and this is a must for anyone who cares about either of these guys or just about golf.” — Golf Channel
🏆 New York Times Bestseller
📘 Paterno
“Paterno doesn't shy away from whatever truth is behind ... makes a cogent case for absorbing Paterno's entire legacy.” — New York Times
🏆 New York Times Bestseller
📘 The Machine
The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds
“The best book ever written about the Big Red Machine.”
—Cincinnati Enquirer
🏆 New York Times Bestseller
📘 The Soul of Baseball
A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America
“A lyrical reminder of all the good that sports and people can bring.”
- New York Post
🏆 Winner 2006 Casey Award
