This comes from the fine people at Sports Illustrated as the magazine announces it has hired Kansas City Star columnist Joe Posnanski.
Award-Winning Columnist Joe Posnanski Joins Sports Illustrated as Senior Writer
(NEW YORK – July 13, 2009) – Columnist Joe Posnanski, a two-time APSE Columnist of the Year and one of the most highly respected and widely read sports writers in the country, will join the Sports Illustrated Group as a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and SI.com on September 1.
“Joe Posnanski is a model for the 21st century journalist,” said Sports Illustrated Group editor Terry McDonell. “His pieces have both weight and nuance, in print and online. He brings yet another preeminent voice to SI.”
Since 1996, Posnanski has written for the Kansas City Star, where he was honored with the 2009 National Headliners Award for sports column writing in addition to his 2003 and 2005 APSE awards, and has spent the past year as a special contributor to Sports Illustrated and SI.com.
“I will be starting what I honestly believe is the best job in American sports writing,” said Posnanski. “It is the opportunity to write at the magazine I grew up reading, the place where my heroes worked and a brilliantly talented staff still writes.”
Posnanski has authored two books: The Soul of Baseball: A Road Trip Through Buck O’Neil’s America—winner of the 2007 Casey Award for best baseball book—and a collection of his past work titled The Good Stuff: Columns About the Magic of Sports. A third book, The Machine: The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds, is due out on September 9.
A native of Cleveland, Posnanski lives in Kansas City with his wife, Margo, and their two daughters, Elizabeth and Katie.
Posnanski actually announced this himself on his Twitter account, but nice to get the official word from SI.
