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….
Book Review: The Best American Sports Writing 2020
Book Review: Attacking the Rim
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…
Book Review: Willie
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…
Book Review: Remembrances of Swings Past
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…
Book Review: You’re Hired
Review by Budd Bailey Once in a great while, I receive a request on this site from a new author that asks me to take a look at his or…
Book Review: The Captain
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…
Book Review: The Quarterback Whisperer
Review by Budd Bailey This obviously is the right time to read a book by Bruce Arians – even a relatively old one. Arians is the coach of the Tampa…
Book Review: One to Remember
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,…
Book Review: The Spencer Haywood Rule
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…
Book Review: Dalko
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…
The Best Baseball Novels of All Time
(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…
Book Review: Off Mike
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…
Book Review: 24
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…
Book Review: Commander in Cheat
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…
