Review by Budd Bailey Sometimes you just have to sit back in awe and admiration of someone else’s literary effort. That’s the case with Howard W. Henry’s book, “Saving Buffalo…
Book Review: Saving Buffalo Baseball
Book Review: The Point After
Review by Budd Bailey Every so often a movie comes along out of absolutely nowhere and catches on with the general public. The best example of that probably was “Rocky”…
Review: Never Shut Up
Review by Budd Bailey The popularity of the book that has the theme of “a stranger in a strange land” continues. After all, how better to describe the exploits of…
Book Review: The Last Folk Hero
Review by Budd Bailey I loved “The Last Folk Hero” at hello, as the line from the movie “Jerry Maguire” goes. The hello in this case is the introduction. Author…
Book Review: Unguarded
Review by Budd Bailey It doesn’t take Scottie Pippen long to make a point in his autobiography. It takes place on the cover, which may at least tie a record….
Book Review: Conflicted Scars
Review by Budd Bailey The first person to come to mind when reading Justin Davis’ “Conflicted Scars” was Andre Agassi. Yes, the tennis player. Agassi wrote a fabulous autobiography called…
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: Game
Review by Budd Bailey It didn’t take long at all for basketball fans to fall in love with Grant Hill’s game. He arrived at Duke in the fall of 1990,…
Book Review: But Seriously
Review by Budd Bailey Sometimes sequels are a good idea. “The Godfather, Part 2” lived up to the reputation of its predecessor. “Top Gun – Maverick” by all accounts is…
Book Review: When Buffalo Stood Atop the Sports World
Review by Budd Bailey Some of the Buffalo television stations seem to be having a contest about who can be the most relentlessly optimistic about the local sports scene at…
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…
Book Review: Icing on the Plains
Review by Budd Bailey Once upon a time, the National Hockey League had a team in Kansas City. You might have missed it. It was around for two seasons in…
Book Review: Playing Through the Pain
Review by Budd Bailey Author Dan Good spent 10 years trying to figure out the puzzle that was Ken Caminiti’s life. That sort of dedication shows up on every page…
