Review by Budd Bailey Apparently retirement didn’t stop Scott Pitoniak from his writing/publishing career. It just moved him into a new phase of his career. Pitoniak is the fine sports…
Book Review: Remembrances of Swings Past
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…
Changing the road to Cooperstown
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist This year’s election for the Baseball Hall of Fame felt like something of a train wreck to me, and not just because no…
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…
The Best Baseball Novels of All Time
(Editor’s Note: We do plenty of reviews of nonfiction sports books on this site. However, the fictional side of the literature has been ignored. When we received this story for…
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…
The Seasons of Buffalo Baseball
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist The new book, “The Seasons of Buffalo Baseball,” is something of a tribute to Joe Overfield, the legendary late local baseball historian. Here’s…
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: The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell
Review by Budd Bailey The book, “The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell,” carries with it more than a little poignancy before reading a single page. Author Lonnie Wheeler…
Book Review: Clearing the Bases
Review by Budd Bailey The next time someone claims that the sports section is the Toy Department of a newspaper or magazine, tell them about Jim Kaplan. Better yet, show…
Book Review: The New Baseball Bible
Review by Budd Bailey How much work went into this book? That’s the initial reaction to picking up a copy of “The New Baseball Bible.” It’s close to 400 pages,…
Closing time
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist We’re almost at the finish line. The Buffalo … er, Toronto Blue Jays played their next-to-last game of the regular season in Sahlen…
Buffalo’s Biggest Free Agents: No. 9
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Ollie Carnegie – Signed by the Bisons in 1931 If you’ve seen “The Natural” –what Buffalo baseball fan hasn’t? – you should know…
… at the old ball game
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist One of my favorite times to show up at a sporting event as a member of the media or worker is the period…
