Review by Budd Bailey “Boom Town” recently popped up in a recently circulated article on the best sports books of our time, basketball division. I hadn’t heard about it, but…
Book Review: Boom Town
Book Review: The Cap
Review by Budd Bailey It might be the most important day in American sports history that no one notices, let alone celebrates. The day is October 8, 1982. The National…
Review: A History of the NBA in 12 Games
Review by Budd Bailey The title of “The History of the NBA in Twelve Games” sets the concept before the book is opened, and it’s an audacious one. Author Sean…
Book Review: Barkley
Review by Budd Bailey Who doesn’t like Charles Barkley? And who wouldn’t like to hit the town with him for at least a little while (knowing that you’ll never keep…
Book Review: Unguarded
Review by Budd Bailey It doesn’t take Scottie Pippen long to make a point in his autobiography. It takes place on the cover, which may at least tie a record….
Book Review: Blood in the Garden
Review by Budd Bailey It was easy to hate the New York Knicks of the 1990s. They were, in the eyes of opposing players and fans, thugs in shorts. That…
Why, John Y. Brown?
By Budd Bailey The death of former Buffalo Braves’ owner John Y. Brown on Tuesday went more or less unnoticed in the Western New York media. There was nothing in…
Book Review: Game
Review by Budd Bailey It didn’t take long at all for basketball fans to fall in love with Grant Hill’s game. He arrived at Duke in the fall of 1990,…
Book Review: When Buffalo Stood Atop the Sports World
Review by Budd Bailey Some of the Buffalo television stations seem to be having a contest about who can be the most relentlessly optimistic about the local sports scene at…
Book Review: The NBA in Black and White
Review by Budd Bailey It’s time for a history lesson, and Ray Scott is your teacher. Your textbook is his autobiography, “The NBA in Black and White.” Scott is remembered…
Book Review: The Big Three
Book Review by Budd Bailey One of the first times that the phrase “Big Three” came up in sports was in the late 1970s. It was used to describe the…
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 –…
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,…
