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  <name><![CDATA[Joe Posnanski]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[   Joe Posnanski is sports columnist for The Kansas City Star and Sports Illustrated. He has twice been named the best sports columnist in America by The Associated Press Sports Editors.

   He has written two books, “The Good Stuff,” a collection of columns, and “The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America,” which won the Casey Award as best baseball book of 2007. His work has been anthologized in “The Best American Sportswriting.&quot;

   Joe grew up in Cleveland, and now lives in Kansas City with his wife, Margo, and their two daughters, Elizabeth and Katie. He is hard at work -- or should be -- on &quot;The Machine,&quot; about the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, which should be published in winter 2009.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Frank Deford, Nick Hornby, Malcolm Gladwell, Bill James, Alice McDermott, Dave Eggers, Ben Folds, Martin Scorsese David Halberstam,  David McCullough, Holden Caufield, Duane Kuiper, Julius and Phillip Epstein, Judy Blume, Bruce Springsteen and Alfred Slote.]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Cleveland, Ohio</hometown>  <born_at>01/08/1967</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Machine: A Hot Team, a Legendary Season, and a Heart-stopping World Series-The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joe Posnanski]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Kansas Century: 100 Years of Championship Jayhawk Basketball]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Good Stuff: Columns about the Magic of Sports]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joe Posnanski]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Machine]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Unstoppable: The Kansas Jayhawks' Journey to the NCAA Title]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Joe Posnanski]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Football and Philosophy: Going Deep]]></title>
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