Review by Budd Bailey Baseball managers more or less come with an expiration date. It’s understood that at some point the organization that hires a manager probably is going to…
Book Review: Gibbs – Tales of a Baseball Lifer
BISONS WIN IN WALK-OFF FASHION FOR SECOND STRAIGHT NIGHT
For the second straight night, a game between the Buffalo Bisons and the Syracuse Mets went back and forth. And like the night before, the Bisons won in walk-off fashion….
Book Review: Welcome to the Circus of Baseball
Review by Budd Bailey There’s something inherently charming about minor league baseball. It represents something of a throwback to a bygone era. For more than a hundred years, young baseball…
Book review: The Book of Joe
Review by Budd Bailey Time has a funny way of changing the perspective on a book. Case in point: “The Book of Joe.” We start with the names on the…
Book Review: The Grandest Stage
Book Review by Budd Bailey The subtitle of “The Grandest Stage” is “A History of the World Series.” That sounds rather deep and ponderous. You can almost imagine paragraphs that…
Book Review: Boston Red Sox
Review by Budd Bailey Sometimes I think I’ve been reading a little too much lately – at least on a particular subject. I can blame retirement, at least in part,…
Review: A Wonderful Waste of Time
Review by Budd Bailey Terry Bonadonna had me on the first page of the introduction to this book. The future baseball writer describes how he was the biggest baseball expert…
Book Review: In Scoring Position
Review by Budd Bailey Bob Ryan and I have at least one thing in common. We reflexively, and perhaps even compulsively, keep score at baseball games. That was a skill…
Book Review: Rickey
Review by Budd Bailey With Rickey Henderson, the stories always start before the facts. Here’s one that didn’t make the book: A sportswriter asked Henderson for an interview, and Rickey…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Book Review: Pinnacle on the Mound
Review by Budd Bailey The concept is a simple one: track down 10 pitchers who have won a Cy Young Award, have a nice, long conversation with them about their…
