Why We Love Football is an odd choice in two ways. It’s slightly odd for me to read this book, and it’s maybe even more odd for Joe Posnanski to write it. Why? Because we’re both bigger fans of baseball. This book is a follow-up to Posnanski’s Why We Love Baseball, and follows a similar format: 100 ranked and numbered entries (there were only 50 for baseball), each pertaining to a specific moment in the history of the sport and accompanied by a short […]

Baseball’s status as the national pastime has been called into question more and more over the last few decades, as its own popularity has declined and that of other sports have surpassed it, but there’s almost no question that baseball is the preferred sport among writers. Baseball, with its curious rhythms, obsession with mythology, and opportunities for heroism, seems to speak especially to those with love for a good story. No one loves a good baseball story as much as Joe Posnanski. He’s got a […]