Review by Budd Bailey Ah, Bobby Valentine. No matter what you think of him, you have to admit it’s difficult to ignore him. That means the baseball lifer has a…
Book Review: Valentine’s Way
Book Review: Super Bowl Blueprints
Review by Budd Bailey Oh, to be Bill Polian and Vic Carucci as they were compiling this book. They came up with the idea of doing an oral history of…
Book Review: Playmakers
Review by Budd Bailey Mike Florio has some opinions about the state of the National Football League, and he’d like to share them. No, that’s not right. That statement doesn’t…
Book Review: Up & Down
Review by Budd Bailey “Up & Down” gives us the chance to talk about the curious case (and accompanying autobiography) of golfer Bubba Watson. Here’s someone who is almost tailor-made…
Book Review: Baseball Prospectus 2022
By Budd Bailey It can be easy to produce the biggest annual book regarding an upcoming baseball season every year. You’d think at Year 27 they’d get used to the…
Book Review: Raise a Fist, Take a Knee
Review by Budd Bailey John Feinstein has a long list of books to his credit over the years, starting with “A Season on the Brink” – a look at Bobby…
Book Review: The Master
Review by Budd Bailey The number of people that hate Roger Federer must be close to absolute zero. Yes, there might be a couple of tennis fans in Spain or…
Book Review: Loserville
Review by Budd Bailey Any discussion about a book called “Loserville” must start with its title. If you only knew that a sports volume was coming out by that name,…
Book Review: Hang Time
Review by Budd Bailey The first time I noticed Elgin Baylor was in 1974, when I was 18 years old. I was in the Basketball Hall of Fame – the…
Book Review: From Hang Time to Prime Time
Review by Budd Bailey For those of you who think the National Basketball Association has been the proverbial big-league organization forever, well, think again. It wasn’t that long ago –…
Book Review: You Are Looking Live!
Review by Budd Bailey It doesn’t take much for a football fan to return to the 1970s. The phrase “you are looking live” ought to do it. That was the…
Book Review: Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
Review by Budd Bailey A good case could be made that the 1936 Summer Olympics were the most dramatic event of its kind in history. Few of the reasons why…
Review: Wish It Lasted Forever
Review by Budd Bailey Dan Shaughnessy can be a tough sportswriter some times. That’s a little more rare than you might think. Criticism of sports figures has become increasingly rare,…
Review: Finding Murph
Review by Budd Bailey “Finding Murph” is one sad story. It’s the latest in something of an informal series of articles and books on the problems in the form of…
