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: Catch 22
Review by Budd Bailey A few years ago, I had a good-sized chat with Rick Vaive at a banquet. I knew him very slightly when he was a member of…
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: 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…
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: I Came as a Shadow
Review by Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page On a personal level, my first reaction when I heard the news of the death of basketball coach John Thompson was that the…
Book Review: Tom Yawkey
By Budd Bailey Tom Yawkey always had been something of a man of mystery during his time as an adult. He bought the Boston Red Sox as a young man…
Book Review: Smokin’ Joe
Review by Budd Bailey In individual sports, the great ones often need a talented rival to show just how good they really were. Jack Nicklaus needed to surpass Arnold Palmer…
