Announcement: Buck O'Neil bio wins Casey Award

February 4, 2008

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.

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