Joe Posnanski won Spitball Magazine‘s 2007 Casey Award for his bittersweet biography of Negro Leagues legend and baseball Ambassador Buck O’Neil.
The elderly O’Neil, who died last year, enjoyed a new-found popularity thanks to Ken Burns’ 1995 documentary on the national pastime.
Announcement: Buck O'Neil bio wins Casey Award
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