Review by Budd Bailey Book edited by R.J. Anderson, Craig Goldstein and Bret Sayre I know. Why would you want to write a book that previews the 2020 baseball season…
Book Review: Baseball Prospectus 2020
Buffalo’s Biggest Free Agents: No. 90
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Hal Chase – Signed by the Buf-Feds in 1914 It’s extremely difficult to sum up this baseball legend in a few paragraphs. Hal…
Book Review: Insight Pitch
Review By Budd Bailey Skip Lockwood didn’t have a typical professional baseball career. And he certainly didn’t have a typical life after baseball. So why would you expect him to…
Book Review: Rocky Colavito: Cleveland’s Iconic Slugger
Review by Budd Bailey Baseball writer Bill James once started a long article on the Cleveland Indians in 1981 by explaining why the trade of Rocky Colavito mattered more than…
Book Review: Homegrown
Review by Budd Bailey Sometimes a sports championship season looks like almost too simple, as if the plan set a few years in the past comes together just like it…
Book Review: No Place I Would Rather Be
By Budd Bailey Roger Angell holds a unique place when it comes to baseball and its literature. It’s a sport that celebrates those who follow it with grace – day…
Book Review: For the Good of the Game
Review by Budd Bailey It seemed like an odd move at the time. Bud Selig as baseball commissioner? Selig was the majority owner of the Milwaukee Brewers for more than…
Book Review: Full Count
By Budd Bailey By the end of his baseball career, you knew David Cone had a book in him. He had reached the point where he had played with some…
Where’s Budd Bailey? Great American Ballpark
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist The eighth inning had just been completed at the Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati, home of the Reds. The home team trailed by…
Book Review: Son of Havana
By Budd Bailey I’m a little biased when it comes to the subject of Luis Tiant. In the spring of 1976, I needed a number for a shirt for a…
Take me out to the ballgame
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist People go to baseball games for all sorts of reasons. That was the obvious conclusion after a trip to Cleveland this week where…
Stealing first base
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist “Did you hear what they are doing in the Atlantic League now?” said the veteran baseball fan with more than a little disgust…
Where’s Budd Bailey? Dwyer Stadium
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist I didn’t have too many highlights during my brief and insignificant career as a baseball broadcaster. I did some games of the Buffalo…
Thanks, Jim Bouton
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Back around the summer of 1970, America’s baseball-loving teenagers noticed there was a great deal of commotion caused by the release of a…
