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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt;When Legendary Negro League player Buck O'Neil asked sports columnist Joe Posnanski how he fell in love with baseball, Posnanski had to think about it. From that question was born the idea behind BASEBALL AND JAZZ. Posnanski and the 94 year old O'Neil decided to spend the 2005 baseball season touring the country in hopes of stirring up the love that first drew them to the game. This book is just as much the story of Buck O'Neil as it is the story of baseball. In a time when disillusioned, steroid&amp;ndash;shooting, money hungry athletes define the sport, Buck O'Neil stands out as a man that truly played for the love of the game. Posnanski writes about that love and the one thing that O'Neil loved almost as much as baseball: jazz. BASEBALL AND JAZZ is an endearing step back in time to the days when the crack of a bat and the smoky notes of a midnight jam session were the sounds that brought the most joy to a man's heart.&lt;/P&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this book a while ago.  I really enjoy Posnanski's blog but I hadn't gotten around to reading the book.  Well, I had kept it at work and was working late on an upgrade with some time to kill in the middle and it captured me so I had to read the whole thing pretty quickly.  <br/>The book is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50919983">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Overall this was a great book, and definitely worth reading.  However, there were times when I felt there was something missing.  I'm still not sure what that something was.  I will say, that the further I got into the book, the less I felt that way.  Around the time the book talked about Robert Pai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45149471">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I recently watched the 10-disc Ken Burns series “Baseball” on DVD. In this series, my favorite interview person was Buck O’Neil. His enthusiasm was contagious, so I was thrilled to come across “The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America”. It was written by the spor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17488558">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The subtitle of this book (A road trip through Buck O'Neil's America) pretty much tells the whole story of this book.  In the last year of his life, Buck O'Neil was accompanied by Joe Posnanski, a Pulitzer Prize winning sports columnist of the Kansas City Star and the author of this book.  Buck O'Ne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6936690">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Time spent with Buck O'Neil is time well spent!  If anyone's personality radiates positivity, it's Buck.  And it is not all blind happiness - he is purposeful and encouraging to others when he communicates.  His travels in America as he promotes the Negro Leagues Museum show his tirelessness, as wel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67550082">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The author is a columnist for the Kansas City Star. The book chronicles his travels with Buck O'Neil, a baseball legend. Buck played, and then managed, in the Negro Leagues. He was instrumental in creating the Negro Leagues Museum. Buck reversed the usual order of famous people: he became more famou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50911680">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A really great read for any baseball fan who needs to reconnect with the stuff that makes the game a really important part of this country's history. Here are things I thought of typing instead of &quot;the stuff&quot; in that last sentence: myths; legends; mythic legacies; shame and ebullience; ups...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39198250">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Much more than a baseball book - moreso a book about Buck O&quot;Neil. I think a must-read for anyone who loves baseball, loves being human, loves life and wants to meet a man the world doesn't have the honor of  having live it on it but once a generation or two or three...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am loving this book.  I was first exposed to Buck ONeill as the charming older black dude who played baseball but talked about Jazz with Ken Burns.  Then I saw him in Burns's baseball.  He was a star of the Negro league just a few years shy of Jackie Robinson's breakthrough.  He was also a witness...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45460305">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful story about what turned out to be the last year of Buck O'Neils life.  The injustice and rejection the man faced in his life was over shadowed by his incredible attitude about life.  &quot;You never forget to talk a lady in a red dress&quot;]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lovely, affectionate portrait of Buck O'Neil, Negro Leagues legend. I read it because I'm a huge fan of the writer, Joe Posnanski, and it reads like a collection of his columns; but there's no harm in that, and I got teary at the end.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the story of the Negro Leagues through the eyes of Buck O'Neil.  I do not really know how to describe it with words...but it is touching.  What O'Neil had to overcome was impressive.  When he entered his late years, he still had much to overcome in educating people about the Negro Leagues in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23881650">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the most moving books I've ever read. Maybe THE most moving. If you've been feeling a little blue lately, here is a great antidote. It's relatively fluff-free, and it's genuinely uplifting.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A delightful account of a great man. Well written, funny and uplifting. I suspect even people who are not baseball fans will love tyhis book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very gently written.  You can see the love Joe has for Buck.  How lucky they were to have each other...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I first need to mention that I love Joe Posnanski, so I was pretty much in the tank for this book before I even read it. That being said, it exceeded my expectations. It's one of those books that can really only be described by a cliche like, &quot;It's a baseball book, sure, but it's really...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30036401">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A first hand biography of Buck O'Neil's last year of life and a history of the Negro Leagues in the form of a travelogue and a series of anecdotes.  <br/><br/>Book repeats the same basic events again and again: Buck travels to an event, tired then is worn down further before being prompted by a me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22780564">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really should learn more about the Negro Leagues of baseball...]]></body>
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