Review by Budd Bailey With Rickey Henderson, the stories always start before the facts. Here’s one that didn’t make the book: A sportswriter asked Henderson for an interview, and Rickey…
Book Review: Rickey
Book Review: Playing Through the Pain
Review by Budd Bailey Author Dan Good spent 10 years trying to figure out the puzzle that was Ken Caminiti’s life. That sort of dedication shows up on every page…
Book Review: The Church of Baseball
Review by Budd Bailey The 1980s were a good period for movies that used baseball as an important part of the story. “The Natural,” “Field of Dreams,” “Major League” and…
Where’s Budd Bailey? Watching the SnowWolves
By Budd Bailey I received most of my baseball education as a child watching games on the Double-A level. Elmira had a team in the Eastern League during the late…
Turn Back the Clock Day
By Budd Bailey It was 1868 during a visit to Genesee Country Village in Mumford on Sunday afternoon – at least in baseball terms. New York’s largest outdoor museum has…
Book Review: The Saga of Sudden Sam
Review by Budd Bailey It’s time for another look at the tragedy and triumph of unfulfilled potential in the sports world. Sam McDowell seemed as if he was one of…
Book Review: Pinnacle on the Mound
Review by Budd Bailey The concept is a simple one: track down 10 pitchers who have won a Cy Young Award, have a nice, long conversation with them about their…
Book Review: True
Review by Budd Bailey It was particularly appropriate – and perhaps a little scary – to read this book shortly after the mass shooting in Buffalo that killed 10 African…
Book Review: Tom Seaver
Review by Budd Bailey I waited about 10 years for someone to get this right. Back around 2011, I read a biography of Tom Seaver called “The Last Icon.” It…
Book Review: How to Beat a Broken Game
Review by Budd Bailey Something has gone wrong in baseball in the past few years. The symptoms are quite obvious. Games take too long to play, and there’s less ball-in-play…
Book Review: Valentine’s Way
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: 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…
Review: Papi
Review by Budd Bailey It’s time for another discussion about that literary phenomenon – the double autobiography. And the person in question is baseball standout David Ortiz. Fans of the…
Baseball’s Hall of Confusion
By Budd Bailey Remember when it was easy to figure out who should be in the Baseball Hall of Famer in Cooperstown? It was the equivalent of a smell test….
