Review by Budd Bailey There have been baseball seasons without the Baseball Prospectus, of course. We’re only in the 28th edition of the annual publication. But we certainly weren’t as…
Book Review: Baseball Prospectus 2023
Buffalo Bills: November 26, 1964 – Giving thanks for a win
(Editor’s Note: Reedy Press has published “The Buffalo Bills: An Illustrated Timeline of a Storied Franchise.” The book was written by Greg Tranter and Budd Bailey; click here for more…
Book Review: Game of Edges
Review by Budd Bailey Perhaps the biggest overall story about professional sports these days might be the most underreported story as well. Not surprisingly, it’s about money. It’s almost always…
Buffalo Bills: August 23, 1962 – The last segregated game
(Editor’s Note: Reedy Press will be publishing “The Buffalo Bills: An Illustrated Timeline of a Storied Franchise” at the end of July. The book was written by Greg Tranter and…
Book Review: Boom Town
Review by Budd Bailey “Boom Town” recently popped up in a recently circulated article on the best sports books of our time, basketball division. I hadn’t heard about it, but…
Buffalo Bills: November 27, 1960 – A storm arrives in Denver
(Editor’s Note: Reedy Press will be publishing “The Buffalo Bills: An Illustrated Timeline of a Storied Franchise” at the end of July. The book was written by Gregory Tranter and…
Book Review: Baseball at the Abyss
Review by Budd Bailey Let’s go back in time almost a century, to the baseball offseason of 1926-27. It was almost a bad news/good news time when it came to…
Review: Coach K
Review by Budd Bailey In the spring of 2022, it was relatively easy to be tired of Mike Krzyzewski. The longtime Duke basketball coach had announced in the summer of…
Book Review: A Damn Near Perfect Game
Review by Budd Bailey There probably is a good book floating around in Joe Kelly’s head. “A Damn Near Perfect Game” isn’t it. The hard-throwing right-hander has had an unusual…
Book Review: The Cap
Review by Budd Bailey It might be the most important day in American sports history that no one notices, let alone celebrates. The day is October 8, 1982. The National…
Book Review: Never Ask “Why”
Review by Budd Bailey You’d have to call this one of the biggest surprises of the sports book year: a memoir by Ed Garvey, the executive director of the National…
Book Review: Shut Out
Review by Budd Bailey There is a great deal to unpack in “Shut Out,” a book that reviews the hockey life of Bernie Saunders. You get the idea immediately after…
Book Review: Gibby – Tales of a Baseball Lifer
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…
Review: Beauties
Review by Budd Bailey The United States and Canada share three of the big four major leagues in North America: Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National…
