Baseball 100

The Baseball 100 counts down Joe Posnanski's ranking of the game's hundred greatest players, from towering legends to underappreciated greats, using each entry as an excuse for a full essay on the player's career, personality, and place in baseball history. Originally serialized before being expanded into book form, the collection blends statistical argument with narrative storytelling.

Posnanski's conversational voice turns what could be a dry countdown into a sweeping, opinionated history of the sport told through the players who defined it.