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…
Book Review: Forty Years a Giant
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…
Book Review: So Many Ways to Lose
Review by Budd Bailey The New York Mets arguably have done less with more than any franchise in baseball, and perhaps in team sports in general. That’s a big statement,…
Book Review: The Day the Yankees Made Me Shave
Review by Budd Bailey Greg Pryor may be on to something here. Virtually everyone who has ever put on a baseball uniform in the pros has accumulated some good stories…
Book Review: Judge Landis and 25 Years of Baseball
Review by Budd Bailey What’s a book that was first published in 1947 doing here? That’s a bit of a story. The publisher of The Sporting News wrote a biography…
Book Review: Remembrances of Swings Past
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: 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…
