NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best
Baseball Book of the Year "An instant sports classic." --New York
Post * "Stellar." --The Wall Street Journal * "A true
masterwork...880 pages of sheer baseball bliss." --BookPage
(starred review) * "This is a remarkable achievement." --Publishers
Weekly (starred review) 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. Longer than Moby-Dick
and nearly as ambitious, The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work
by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe
Posnanski that tells the story of the sport through the remarkable
lives of its 100 greatest players. In the book's introduction,
Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator George F. Will marvels,
"Posnanski must already have lived more than 200 years. How else
could he have acquired such a stock of illuminating facts and
entertaining stories about the rich history of this endlessly
fascinating sport?" Baseball's legends come alive in these pages,
which are not merely rankings but vibrant profiles of the game's
all-time greats. Posnanski dives into the biographies of iconic
Hall of Famers, unfairly forgotten All-Stars, talents of today, and
more. He doesn't rely just on records and statistics--he lovingly
retraces players' origins, illuminates their characters, and places
their accomplishments in the context of baseball's past and
present. Just how good a pitcher is Clayton Kershaw in the
twenty-first- century game compared to Greg Maddux dueling with the
juiced hitters of the nineties? How do the career and influence of
Hank Aaron compare to Babe Ruth's? Which player in the top ten most
deserves to be resurrected from history? No compendium of
baseball's legendary geniuses could be complete without the players
of the segregated Negro Leagues, men whose extraordinary careers
were largely overlooked by sportswriters at the time and unjustly
lost to history. Posnanski writes about the efforts of former Negro
Leaguers to restore sidelined Black athletes to their due honor,
and draws upon the deep troves of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
and extensive interviews with the likes of Buck O'Neil to
illuminate the accomplishments of players such as pitchers Satchel
Paige and Smokey Joe Williams; outfielders Oscar Charleston, Monte
Irvin, and Cool Papa Bell; first baseman Buck Leonard; shortstop
Pop Lloyd; catcher Josh Gibson; and many, many more. The Baseball
100 treats readers to the whole rich pageant of baseball history in
a single volume. Chapter by chapter, Posnanski invites readers to
examine common lore with brand-new eyes and learn stories that have
long gone unheard. The epic and often emotional reading experience
mirrors Posnanski's personal odyssey to capture the history and
glory of baseball like no one else, fueled by his boundless love
for the sport. Engrossing, surprising, and heartfelt, The Baseball
100 is a magisterial tribute to the game of baseball and the stars
who have played it.
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