Soul of Baseball A Road Trip Through Buck o'Neil's America

Name: Soul of Baseball A Road Trip Through Buck o'Neil's America
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ISBN: 9780060854041

ISBN-10: 0060854049

ISBN-13: 9780060854041

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Authors: Joe Posnanski

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When legendary Negro League player Buck O'Neil asked Joe Posnanski how he fell in love with baseball, the renowned sports columnist was inspired by the question. He decided to spend the 2005 baseball season touring the country with the ninety-four-year-old O'Neil in hopes of rediscovering the love that first drew them to the game. The Soul of Baseball is as much the story of Buck O'Neil as it is the story of baseball. Driven by a relentless optimism and his two great passions-for America's pastime and for jazz, America's music-O'Neil played solely for love. In an era when greedy, steroid-enhanced athletes have come to characterize professional ball, Posnanski offers a salve for the…

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List price: $18.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/11/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.35" wide x 7.99" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

A senior writer at Sports Illustrated , Joe Posnanski has twice been named the Best Sports Columnist in America by the Associated Press Sports Editors for his work at the Kansas City Star. He is the author of The Good Stuff and The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America , which won the prestigious Casey Award for best baseball book of 2007. His work has also been anthologized in Best American Sports Writing , and he lives with his family in Kansas City, Missouri.



Warming Up a Riff


Buck O'Neil's America


Winter


They Can't Take That Away from Me


Nicodemus


Spring


I Like to Recognize the Tune


A Ballgame in Houston


It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)


Buck O'Neil Day


Summer


Blue Skies


New York, New York


These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)


Fathers and Sons


Summertime


Gary, Indiana


I'd Rather Have a Memory Than a Dream


Classrooms in Atlanta


Isn't This a Lovely Day?


Autumn


I Got a Right to Sing the Blues


A Funeral in Chicago


Washington


Winter (Take 2)


Home


Afterword


Afterword to the Paperback Edition


Acknowledgments