Left Bank Books, St. Louis County Library & the St. Louis Jewish Community Center presents #1 New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski, who will discuss his love letter to baseball "Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments" at the Jewish Community Center on September 7th at 7pm! Posnanski will be in conversation with Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, essayist and American culture critic Gerald Early. Please purchase a ticket to attend the event in person or virtually. All ticket options come with one book.

Order additional copies of "Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments" from Left Bank Books to support authors and independent bookstores! Posnanski will sign additional copies for sale from Left Bank Books. If you are unable to make it in person, you can have books shipped to you.

A love letter to baseball, and the follow-up to last year's runaway bestseller "The Baseball 100"

"The Baseball 100" was a must-have look at 100 memorable baseball players. Joe Posnanski's new book, "Why We Love Baseball" is equally essential reading, now about the game's top 50 moments.

Willie Mays's catch. Babe Ruth's called shot. Kirk Gibson's limping home run.

Moments like these have been described again and again, and in "Why We Love Baseball" they are looked at anew, told from unique perspectives. These are moments from the big and famous to the small and private; experienced by players, teammates, and fans; all of them fundamental to the connection fans have with the game they love.

These are fresh tales of legendary moments so powerful they almost feel like myth--takes that go to the heart of why we love the game we do.

Joe Posnanski is the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of six books, including "The Baseball 100", "Paterno", and "The Secret of Golf", and has been named National Sportswriter of the Year by five different organizations. He writes at JoePosnanski.com and currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his family.

Gerald Early is the Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies, and director of the Center for Humanities at Washington University. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is the editor of several volumes, including "This Is Where I Came In: Black America in the 1960s"; "The Sammy Davis Jr. Reader"; "Body Language: Writers on Sport"; "Speech and Power"; "Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilation"; and "My Soul's High Song: The Collected Works of Countee Cullen", as well as the author of "The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture", which won the 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism; "One Nation Under a Groove: Motown and American Culture"; "Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood"; and "Tuxedo Junction"

"The celebrated sportswriter circles the bases, calling out exceptional moments in the history of the game...One of Posnanski's winning ploys is to dig into the archives to find such hidden gems and especially to celebrate the mediocre players who, for one of those magical moments, pulled something out of their caps and hit a surprise homer... A book for any baseball fan to cherish." -- Kirkus Reviews

"A winning collection of baseball moments both inside and outside the lines." --Booklist