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

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

Rating

8.5

The Pequod Review:

Buck O’Neil (1911-2006) was a former Negro League player and manager, who spent most of his career with Kansas City Monarchs. Joe Posnanski's excellent book The Soul of Baseball is not just a biography of O’Neil and his playing career but is also a very good social and cultural history of 1940s and 1950s America.