I'm way behind on these, because I am savoring them and reading only one per day, if that. I just got to the Rogers Hornsby article, and it was great. Buried in the comments section to that one, someone posted a link to another Posnanski piece on his blog about another hated player who had a terrible reputation, Dick Allen.
joeposnanski.substack.com/p/whats-in-a-name
I don't even know what to do with that story. I had no idea of most of that, even though I remember as a kid hearing about how everyone in baseball hated Dick Allen, the lazy, druggy complaining guy. While not denying that Allen did some bad things, Joe sheds some light on why he did some of those things, and illustrates some of what he had to deal with. Yet another classic Joe piece that shows that in this life, everyone is complicated. There's always a lot more going on than the "good or bad" narrative.
Joe Posnanski IMO is the best baseball writer going right now. He's clearly the best baseball history writer, but I don't think there's anybody currently out there I'd rather read about on any aspect of sports, not just baseball history.
joeposnanski.substack.com/p/whats-in-a-name
I don't even know what to do with that story. I had no idea of most of that, even though I remember as a kid hearing about how everyone in baseball hated Dick Allen, the lazy, druggy complaining guy. While not denying that Allen did some bad things, Joe sheds some light on why he did some of those things, and illustrates some of what he had to deal with. Yet another classic Joe piece that shows that in this life, everyone is complicated. There's always a lot more going on than the "good or bad" narrative.
Joe Posnanski IMO is the best baseball writer going right now. He's clearly the best baseball history writer, but I don't think there's anybody currently out there I'd rather read about on any aspect of sports, not just baseball history.
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