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: True
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…
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….
Book Review: The Baseball 100
Review by Budd Bailey Ever hear of “the sweet spot” in sports? It usually comes up in baseball, although it probably applies to golf too. The sweet spot is that…
Book Review: Gathering Crowds
Review by Budd Bailey A great deal happened to baseball in the years between 1975 and 1993, more or less. That doesn’t include what happened on the field, either. That…
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…
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: 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…
