Best Podcast in Baseball 9.21: Joe Posnanski & his new classic, 'The Baseball 100'

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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A colossal feat of baseball reporting and baseball writing, Joe Posnanski's 'The Baseball 100', a New York Times bestseller, hits the desk with a thump to announce its gravity but lifts the heart as a joy to read. It's more than a ranking of the greatest 100 players in baseball history -- ranging from Willie Mays (No. 1) to Stan Musial (No. 9) and out to Ol' Pete Alexander, Bob Gibson, Steve Carlton, Max Scherzer, and Ichiro -- it's a bound volume of 100 of the greatest stories in baseball. Posnanski joins St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold to discuss the challenge of telling these stories, ranking the great players, what he found during his quest, and what he tried to capture about the highest-rated active player, former Cardinals MVP Albert Pujols. Posnanski, an award-winning sports columnist, is also the author of 'The Soul of Baseball' as well as JoeBlogs, and he's the host of the Podcast.

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0:00.0	The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.
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0:12.6	Call 1-800 by design.
0:14.4	That's 1-800-by-design.
0:16.9	What I wanted to do with that Poole-Hull's chapter was remind people of his greatness and just how and how dominant a player he was.
0:26.1	And I think when people think about Ken Griffey, the only thing about the young Ken Griffey.
0:29.8	And at least right now, when people think about the Albert Poole's, the only thing about the old Albert Pools.
0:34.5	And maybe that'll change as we get closer to his Hall of Fame and induction and all
0:38.7	of those sorts of things.
0:39.4	But I do think it's kind of interesting that people have forgotten how great Pouls is.
0:53.6	Hello, everybody, and welcome to the best podcast in baseball, brought to you by Cossets by
0:57.1	Design of St. Louis.
0:57.9	I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derek Gould.
1:00.1	Join this week, and I'm thrilled to say this by Joe Posnansky, Uber Sports Rider, and wish
1:06.8	me luck on this intro.
1:08.1	He writes, Joe Blogs, host Pazcast, has a biography on Houdini,
1:12.6	wrote for the Kansas City star Sports Illustrated, awards galore, and the author of one of the best
1:17.6	baseball books, the soul of baseball. Now he's thrown another contender into that ring, the baseball
1:23.6	100. It hits the desk with a thump, but lifts the heart as a joy to read. Joe, welcome.
1:30.6	And how much did you have to learn about the players, new about the players, as you set out on this
1:35.9	quest for the Baseball 100? Oh, wow. First of all, thank you for all those kind of words.
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