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The other day, I had a moment of grace. Well, I don't know if it was grace, exactly, but it was something like that. Enlightenment, maybe? Illumination…
Joe Posnanski
Jun 14Comment 12Share
The word “ever” has been attached to the three of them for a long time now. Roger Federer was first to it, the first to be called the greatest ever. Fr…
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Jun 12Comment 5Share
Empathy is the toughest emotion, isn’t it? Yes, it’s fairly easy to empathize with people we naturally connect with. Show me a reasonably optimistic 50…
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Jun 2Comment 12Share
So, Mike Schur and I just finished recording what will be the last PosCast we do for The Athletic. I realize looking at that sentence that it sounds mu…
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May 24Comment 42Share
The best player in baseball history turns 90 today, Willie Mays, the Say Hey Kid, the player who blended speed and power and joy and poetry and enthusi…
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May 6Comment 6Share
My life does take unexpected turns. I mean this in the best way — I’m mostly a sportswriter, of course, but then I find myself involved in all sorts of…
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Apr 27Comment 24Share
Hoping all of you saw this: A Negro Leagues Museum Bo Jackson bobblehead? What? I’m going to lose my mind. And what better excuse do you need to re-run…
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Apr 16Comment 4Share
The great decathlete and humanitarian Rafer Johnson passed away on Wednesday. He was 86 years old. About 10 years ago, I spent some time with him and i…
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Dec 2, 2020Comment 9Share
First, as always, come the apologies: Life has been kicking my butt lately. I don’t need to burden you with my troubles, you have your own. And we’ll p…
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Nov 19, 2020Comment 16Share
There are two things that blow my mind about Mike Emrick, NBC’s legendary hockey announcer who on Monday announced his retirement. The first is how awe…
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Oct 20, 2020Comment 8Share
A few weeks before Buck O’Neil died — he died 14 years ago today — I got to tell the red dress story publicly for the first time. We were at some sort …
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Oct 6, 2020Comment 16Share
Hi everybody. Hope you’re holding up in these crazy times. I apologize again for not posting here more often. I’m hoping for things to begin to clear u…
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Sep 10, 2020Comment 8Share
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