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 Captain
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: 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…
The Year in Sports Books
By Budd Bailey If you’re anything like me, you probably have had time to do some reading in the past several months. Funny how a pandemic frees up time for…
Book Review: Beating the Odds
Review by Budd Bailey Eddie Olczyk certainly has led an interesting life to date. He was a good hockey player in his day, and went on to make a seamless…
Book Review: The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino
By Budd Bailey If you follow college basketball in particular or even sports in general, you probably heard about the FBI probe into recruiting in that particular sport in 2017….
Book Review: Gods at Play
Review by Budd Bailey You hear the phrase “I couldn’t put it down” when it comes to books. That’s more rare than you’d think. Even the good ones call for…
Book Review: Kooks and Degenerates on the Ice
Review by Budd Bailey Fifty years? Fifty years. It’s been a half-century as of 2020 since Bobby Orr did a Superman impression for the Boston Bruins, flying through the air…
Book Review: Mr. Met
Review by Budd Bailey We’ve been lucky enough to receive the SNY feed of New York Mets broadcasts for the past several years. Some of the baseball hasn’t been too…
Book Review: Three Seconds in Munich
Review by Budd Bailey The publication of a book like “Three Seconds in Munich” brings up something of a quandary for a book reader – and, more specifically, a book…
Book Review: Losers
Review by Budd Bailey There are plenty of sports anthologies out there if you go looking for them. There are books about the best writing of a particular year, the…
Book Review: The Wax Pack
Review by Budd Bailey “The Wax Pack” starts with an interesting concept from an unusual baseball author. Brad Balukjian doesn’t have the standard biography. He has a Ph.D. in entomology…
Book Review: Insight Pitch
Review By Budd Bailey Skip Lockwood didn’t have a typical professional baseball career. And he certainly didn’t have a typical life after baseball. So why would you expect him to…
Book Review: The Best American Sports Writing 2019
Review By Budd Bailey It’s never easy to come up with a new way to review a book in an annual series – particularly one that is as consistently good…
