Joe Posnanski
“Contemporary sports writing’s biggest star.”*
*The Wall Street Journal
Why We Love Football
A History in 100 Moments
Available September 17
“I live a double life. On the outside, in public, I am a full-blooded baseball fan—mild-mannered, somewhat cultured, fascinated by poetry, swayed by romance, a student of history.
“Stan Musial, you say?” I might remark at a party while wearing a tweed jacket with patches on the elbows. “Why, did you know that Stan Musial had exactly 1,815 hits both at home and on the road? Doesn’t that just speak directly to the mathematical rhythms of baseball and life?”
But this is only the face I show the world.
I have another face, another side, a part of me that, as Jack Nicholson says in A Few Good Men, I don’t talk about at parties. This is a part of me that prefers gray days, that feels most alive as the days grow short, that eats Doritos by the handful and wants to head to the local Buffalo Wild Wings to bark at a television set, that still feels a little bit dead when the “60 Minutes” clock starts ticking and another football Sunday has passed by.
I live a double life. Down deep, I am a football fan.”
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Why We Love Baseball
New York Times bestseller and winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year
#1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski is back with a masterful ode to the game: a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to make you fall in love with the sport all over again.
The Baseball 100
A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singular, and masterly book that took a lifetime to write. The entire story of baseball rings through a countdown of the 100 greatest players in history, with a foreword by George Will.
The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work that tells the story of the sport through the remarkable lives of its 100 greatest players.
“Deal of the century!”
—Nick Offerman
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