Review by Budd Bailey Here’s a book that did not age well, even though it might have seemed like a reasonable idea at the time It’s called “Hurricane Season,” and…
Book Review: Hurricane Season
Book Review: Stealing Home
Review by Budd Bailey Some of the best sports books are the ones that barely touch the activity that takes place on the playing field. “Stealing Home” can be found…
Book Review: Fenway 1946
Review by Budd Bailey There’s never been a baseball season quite like the one in 1946. After almost 40 years of stability and growth, major league baseball faced some difficult…
Book Review: Our Team
Review by Budd Bailey It takes some imagination to picture the scene. Think about four men, who couldn’t be more different, racing toward a mutual destiny. That’s part of the…
Book Review: Buzz Saw
Review by Budd Bailey When a sports team approaches a championship, you can bet that there’s one thing that always on the back of the mind of the reporters who…
Book Review: Forty Years a Giant
Review by Budd Bailey The photo on the cover of “Forty Years a Giant” is telling. Horace Stoneham is sitting in the front row of a baseball stadium,, with patriots…
My time in “The Show”
By Budd Bailey Beginnings are often exciting if scary, while endings are usually emotional if sad. No wonder I was feeling confused on Wednesday night. As you know, the Toronto…
Where’s Budd Bailey? Frontier Field in Rochester
By Budd Bailey I have done sillier things than drive to Rochester from Buffalo for a baseball game that was rained out after two innings. I’m the guy that, in…
Book Review: Baseball Prospectus 2021
Review by Budd Bailey They really did it. The smart guys from Baseball Prospectus managed to put out their 2021 annual this spring, and make it the same size as…
Book Review: America’s Game in the Wild-Card Era
Review by Budd Bailey A discussion of most books starts with thoughts about the execution of the publication rather than the creation of the idea behind it. “America’s Game in…
Book Review: Bases to Bleachers
Review by Budd Bailey There’s only one way to start a discussion about Eric C. Gray’s book, “Bases to Bleachers” – with a story. When I was seven years old,…
Book Review: Two Sides of Glory
Review by Budd Bailey In the American League Championship Series in 1986, the Boston Red Sox were on the verge of elimination from the playoffs in the ninth inning of…
Fans see major league baseball in Buffalo again
By Budd Bailey Back on September 8, 1915, the Buffalo Blues (also known as the Buf-Feds) of the Federal League played a double-header against the Baltimore Terrapins at Federal Field…
Book Review: A Tribe Reborn
Review by Budd Bailey These days, you have to have been around the block a few times to remember when the Cleveland Indians were bad. The baseball team has been…
