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Joe Posnanski was born on 8 January, 1967 in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., is an American sportswriter. Discover Joe Posnanski's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 57 years old?

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Occupation Sports columnist Author
Age 57 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 8 January, 1967
Birthday 8 January
Birthplace Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1967

Joe Posnanski (born January 8, 1967), nicknamed "Poz" and "Joe Po", is an American sports journalist.

A former senior columnist for Sports Illustrated (where he wrote a blog called "Curiously Long Posts") and columnist for The Kansas City Star, he currently writes for his personal blog JoeBlogs.

Posnanski grew up in South Euclid, Ohio and moved to Charlotte, North Carolina during high school.

He studied accounting, but later switched his major to English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Posnanski began his journalism career as a multi-use reporter and an editor at The Charlotte Observer.

He worked as a columnist at The Cincinnati Post, The Augusta Chronicle, and The Kansas City Star.

1975

Another book, about the Big Red Machine, titled The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, was published in 2009 and reached Number 17 on the New York Times Bestseller List.

2002

In 2002 and 2005, Posnanski was named the best sports columnist in America by the Associated Press Sports Editors.

In all, he has been nominated 26 times for APSE Awards, and he also has won in the features and projects categories.

2007

His book The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America was published by William Morrow & Company and won the CASEY Award as best baseball book of 2007.

MLB.com included the book in its list of the "Best baseball books of all time" in 2021.

In October 2007, he debuted his website at joeposnanski.com, later converted to a blog and titled Joe Blog.

2009

In 2009, he won the National Headliners Award for sports column writing, and he won back-to-back National Headliners Awards in 2011 and 2012 for Online Writing.

2011

In 2011, his blog post on The Promise was named one of "Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism" by The Atlantic.

The blog was nominated for a National Magazine Award.

In 2011, the Baseball Bloggers Alliance named Posnanski the inaugural winner of their online writer of the year award.

The BBA also announced that they will rename the award "The Joe Posnanski Award."

At the Blogs With Balls 4 conference, he won best sportswriter in the first Untitled Sports Media Award Project (USMAP).

The National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame held its 48th Annual Induction Banquet in September 2021, inducting Bronko Nagurski, J.R. Cielski, A.J. Pierzynski and Mike Krukow.

Joe Posnanski was honored with the Tony Kubek Media Award.

He is on the 10-person voting panel for the Fielding Bible Awards, an alternative to the Gold Glove Award in Major League Baseball.

The PosCast is a weekly podcast on the Le Batard and Friends podcast network hosted by Posnanski and is co-hosted by Michael Schur.

The podcast primarily discusses baseball but meanders into other sports, subjects, drafts of random items, and prides itself in being nonsensical.

The podcast has featured notable guests and co-hosts such as Linda Holmes, Ken Rosenthal, Nick Offerman, Ellen Adair, Stefan Fatsis, Brandon McCarthy, Joey Votto, and Sean Doolittle.

He and his wife Margo live in Charlotte, North Carolina.

They have two daughters.

Posnanski has appeared on several television programs and documentaries.

2012

He was a senior writer for Sports Illustrated until April 2012 when he announced that he would work for Sports on Earth, a new internet joint venture between USA Today and Major League Baseball Advanced Media.

His first column for Sports on Earth was published on August 26, 2012.

Posnanski wrote a biography of longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno for Simon & Schuster, which was released on August 21, 2012 and debuted at Number 1 on the New York Times Bestseller List.

Posnanski's fourth book, The Secret of Golf, details the longstanding rivalry and friendship of golfers Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus.

In January 2012, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (NSSA) named Posnanski National Sportswriter of the Year.

2013

In February 2013, he became the national columnist for NBC Sports.

2014

In 2014 and 2016, he won Sports Emmy Awards as part of NBC's Olympic coverage.

Posnanski has won many other awards, including the Missouri Press Association award for best sports columnist in Missouri 10 times, and he was the first recipient of the Joe McGuff journalism award, presented by the Greater Kansas City Sports Commission.

2017

In February 2017, he became a national columnist for MLB.com and contributor on the MLB Network.

A selection of his columns about the magic of sports is compiled in the book The Good Stuff.

2019

His book The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini was released on October 22, 2019.

His latest book was The Baseball 100 was released on September 28,2021.