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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 once inspired by the question. He made up our minds to spend the 2005 baseball season touring the rustic with the ninety-four-year-old O’Neil in hopes of rediscovering the love that first drew them to the sport.
The Soul of Baseball is as much the tale of Buck O’Neil as it’s the story of baseball. Driven by a relentless optimism and his two great passions—for The us’s pastime and for jazz, The us’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 damaged spirit: the uplifting life lessons of a actually ordinary man who never missed a possibility to enjoy and love life.