Royals Rundown: Remembering the top 10 years in Kansas City sports history
The following article appeared in the Topeka Capital-Journal on Aug. 31 – you can read it by clicking here. The Kansas City […]
The following article appeared in the Topeka Capital-Journal on Aug. 31 – you can read it by clicking here. The Kansas City […]
Joe Posnanski, author of The Soul of Baseball, spoke to a large crowd at the Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library today, […]
To a cursory observer, the Negro Leagues can appear shrouded in mystery, an incomplete and romantic collection of legends with just a […]
“The Giants did talk about signing me in 1945. It was right around the same time as Jackie. But I wasn’t ready […]
A dominant theme at the end of Buck O’Neil’s life, and since his death, is his exclusion from the Baseball Hall of […]
Buck O’Neil, in The Soul of Baseball, attends a funeral for a fellow Negro Leaguer. The topic of death underlies much of […]
If you know anything at all about Buck O’Neil, you probably know the following, perhaps in this order: 1) he has a […]
One common theme throughout Joe Posnanski’s The Soul of Baseball is the value Buck O’Neil placed on the relationship between fathers and […]
Sadly, I don’t have a lot of memories from my childhood, nor from high school. I have vague general impressions of what […]
In The Soul of Baseball, Joe Posnanski retells the romantic tale of how Buck O’Neil discovered and scouted Oscar Gamble in the […]