Review by Budd Bailey Authors don’t often have the chance to take a second swing at a subject. It turns out that Scott Morrison is an exception. Back in 1989,…
Book Review: 1972
Book Review: The War
Review by Budd Bailey I hope you’ll excuse a quick personal story about the 1985 fight between Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns, which is at the center of Don…
Review: So Help Me Golf
Review by Budd Bailey There’s always an argument brewing when the subject of “America’s best sportswriter” comes up. There are plenty of names that could be tossed around. Such a…
Book Review: Tiger & Phil
Review by Budd Bailey We love our rivalries in sports. The concept probably started in the 19th century, when the team in my town challenged the team from the town…
Book Review: Thunder Snow of Buffalo
Review by Budd Bailey Let’s start with a personal story about the regionally famous snowstorm that hit the Buffalo area on October 12-13, 2006 – known in most places as…
Where’s Budd Bailey? Saluting Doug Smith’s Power
By Budd Bailey I’ve been thinking a lot this week about Doug Smith, the late Buffalo journalist who went by the nicknames of “The Cheap Gourmet,” “The Fun Ranger,” and…
Book Review: The Church of Baseball
Review by Budd Bailey The 1980s were a good period for movies that used baseball as an important part of the story. “The Natural,” “Field of Dreams,” “Major League” and…
Where’s Budd Bailey? Watching the SnowWolves
By Budd Bailey I received most of my baseball education as a child watching games on the Double-A level. Elmira had a team in the Eastern League during the late…
Book Review: It’s Better to be Feared
Review by Budd Bailey As someone who has spent most of the past half-century in Buffalo Bills country, it’s been easy to avoid discussions about the New England Patriots during…
Turn Back the Clock Day
By Budd Bailey It was 1868 during a visit to Genesee Country Village in Mumford on Sunday afternoon – at least in baseball terms. New York’s largest outdoor museum has…
The Bills’ One-Hundred Club
By Budd Bailey All right, it’s early July. The football news is more or less recycled from minicamp interviews, unless you happen to be a fan of Baker Mayfield. Clearly…
Book Review: The Saga of Sudden Sam
Review by Budd Bailey It’s time for another look at the tragedy and triumph of unfulfilled potential in the sports world. Sam McDowell seemed as if he was one of…
Bandits try to turn the page
By Budd Bailey The powers that be in the National Lacrosse League didn’t allow too many members of the Buffalo Bandits’ organization to speak to the media after the final…
Book Review: No One Wins Alone
Review by Budd Bailey An unusual book, “No One Wins Alone.” There are all sorts of biographies, sports-related or not, out there. This one is simply different in some ways….
