Joe Posnanski Wins 2007
Casey Award!
Joe Posnanski won the 2007 Casey Award for The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America, published by William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins). Posnanski swept to the win with one first-place vote and two second-place votes. Judge Bill McGill called the book "a moving portrait of a beautiful human being and the Negro League's greatest champion," while Judge Rollie Jacobsen said that "Posnanski perfectly captures the voice of O'Neil and the heart of his message - the book is a joy to read." Congratulations to Mr. Posnanski and to the judges for a job well done.
2007 Casey Award Nominees
The Best Game Ever: Pirates vs. Yankees: October 13, 1960 (Carroll & Graf) by Jim Reisler
Branch Rickey: Baseball's Ferocious Gentleman (University of Nebraska Press) by Lee Lowenfish
Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball (University of Nebraska Press) by Norman L. Macht
Crazy '08: How a Cast of Cranks, Rogues, Boneheads, and Magnates Created the Greatest Year in Baseball History (HarperCollins) by Cait Murphy
Level Playing Fields: How the Groundskeeping Murphy Brothers Shaped Baseball (University of Nebraska Press) by Peter Morris
Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season (Simon & Schuster) by Jonathan Eig
Senior Year: A Father, A Son, and High School Baseball (Houghton Mifflin) by Dan Shaughnessy
The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America (William Morrow/HarperCollins) by Joe Posnanski
Ty and the Babe: The Incredible Saga of Baseball's Fiercest Rivals, the Forging of a Surprising Friendship, and the Battle for the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Chmpionship (Thomas Dunne Books) by Tom Stanton
Through a Blue Lens: The Brooklyn Dodgers Photographs of Barney Stein, 1937-1957 (Triumph Books) by Dennis D'Agostino & Bonnie Crosby
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