Reddit Reddit reviews The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America

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4 Reddit comments about The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O'Neil's America:

u/Cabke · 6 pointsr/baseball

I said this a minute ago in another thread, but The Soul of Baseball by Joe Posnanski is fantastic. He follows Buck O'Neil (who all but created the Negro League Museum here in KC on his own) on a road trip. It gave me a whole new perspective on baseball and the Negro Leagues. Buck was known for his crazy stories, and you'll get a ton of them.

u/oppositeofcatchhome · 5 pointsr/baseball

If you want to learn more about Buck, I highly recommend reading his autobiography and then following it up with Joe Posnanski's The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America. The autobiography is a quick, easy read and you'll learn Buck's story as well as the story of the Negro Leagues in general. But I recommend following it with Posnanski's book to really get to know Buck as a person. Posnanski traveled around the country with Buck for a year towards the end of Buck's life and wrote this book about the experience. While some of the stories from the autobiography are retold, Posnanski's book functions more as a portrait of the man than simply a history. I really can't say enough about this book. It will make you laugh and cry, etc., etc. Just read it. And then spend the rest of your life wishing you could have given Buck O'Neil a hug.

u/justanavrgguy · 1 pointr/baseball

I'm sure you've read "The Soul of Baseball" but if you haven't, you should.