Joe Posnanski
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Joe Posnanski
Joe Posnanski is an American sports journalist. A former senior columnist for Sports Illustratedand columnist for The Kansas City Star, he currently is the national columnist for NBC Sports and also writes for his personal blog, Joe Blog...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth8 January 1967
CountryUnited States of America
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When I was a kid growing up in Cleveland, I believed - completely, wholeheartedly, without reservation or pause - that the Cleveland Indians were named to honor a Native American ballplayer named Louis Sockalexis, who played for Cleveland in the late 19th Century.
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There's an old line that goes like this: An optimist is usually happy. And a pessimist is usually right. Maybe so. But which would you rather be, anyway?