Review by Budd Bailey When it comes to emotion and drama in international hockey games, the standard was set in 1972 in the Super Series between Canada and the Soviet…
Book Review: Freedom to Win
Buffalo Bills: March 24, 1978 – O.J. goes home to San Francisco
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Farewell to a local legend
By Budd Bailey Rick Jeanneret, the voice of Buffalo Sabres’ hockey for more than 50 years, made hockey games better. No, hold on for a minute. That’s an incomplete sentence….
Book Review: The Lineup
Review by Budd Bailey Paul Aron has given himself quite a challenge, and it’s revealed in the subtitle to “The Lineup.” It reads, “Ten Books That Changed Baseball.” Fans of…
Buffalo Bills: December 14, 1969 – Goodbye AFL
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Review: In the Inner Sanctum
Review by Budd Bailey There probably isn’t a better boxing writer out there than Thomas Hauser. He’s been out there forever, it seems, writing about the Sweet Science. Much of…
Buffalo Bills: November 5, 1967 – King brothers make history
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Book Review: Baseball Prospectus 2023
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…
Buffalo Bills: November 26, 1964 – Giving thanks for a win
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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…
