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NEW YORK TIMES bestseller

Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year

National Sports Media Association Sports Book of the Year 

An NPR "Book of the Day"

#1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski is back with a masterful ode to the game: a countdown…

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2 authors picked Why We Love Baseball as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I know a lot about the history of the game of baseball, and yet Joe took me to exciting games and plays and players I knew nothing about, and he did it in such a clever way that I found myself loving this book. As an author myself, I am rarely surprised by the way a book is written. The way Joe put this book together was just short of genius. His is a rare talent.

Could have been just a simple "top 100 moments" book. It isn't. It evoked emotion and tons of nostalgia!

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