Review by Budd Bailey To use a newspaper term, it’s sadly time to put a “-30-” at the end of the Best American Sports Writing series as its presently constituted….
Review by Budd Bailey It’s easy to wonder if Dave Bing considered borrowing the words “I Led Three Lives” for his new autobiography. That was the name of a 1952…
Review by Budd Bailey t took the National Hockey League quite a while to learn what a special player and person Willie O’Ree was and is. Luckily, we now have…
Review by Budd Bailey Apparently retirement didn’t stop Scott Pitoniak from his writing/publishing career. It just moved him into a new phase of his career. Pitoniak is the fine sports…
Review by Budd Bailey For more than 40 years, the third baseman’s job for the New York Mets read like something like an Abbott and Costello routine – as in…
Reviewed by Budd Bailey It’s always interesting to be read about “the one and done” club. That is to say – stories about someone who did something worth noting once,…
Review by Budd Bailey This sounded so promising at the beginning. The so-called “Spencer Haywood Rule” is a great starting point for a book. Haywood came out of the University…
Review by Budd Bailey The number of recent sports legends who remain something of a mystery probably can be counted on less than two hands. Such performers needed to play…
(Editor’s Note: We do plenty of reviews of nonfiction sports books on this site. However, the fictional side of the literature has been ignored. When we received this story for…
Review by Budd Bailey Mike Emrick deserves all sorts of credit in the field of sports broadcasting. He’s outlasted just about everyone when it comes to hockey announcing in the…
By Budd Bailey My favorite quote about baseball legend Willie Mays comes from, of all people, actress Tallulah Bankhead, Apparently around 1962, she said something like “There have only been…
Review by Budd Bailey The first question about Rick Reilly’s book, “Commander in Cheat,” is a basic one. Does it deserve to be put on a website that includes sports…