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: Baseball Prospectus 2021
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…
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…
Changing the road to Cooperstown
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist This year’s election for the Baseball Hall of Fame felt like something of a train wreck to me, and not just because no…
Book Review: Dalko
Review by Budd Bailey The number of recent sports legends who remain something of a mystery probably can be counted on less than two hands. Such performers needed to play…
The Best Baseball Novels of All Time
(Editor’s Note: We do plenty of reviews of nonfiction sports books on this site. However, the fictional side of the literature has been ignored. When we received this story for…
Book Review: 24
By Budd Bailey My favorite quote about baseball legend Willie Mays comes from, of all people, actress Tallulah Bankhead, Apparently around 1962, she said something like “There have only been…
The Seasons of Buffalo Baseball
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist The new book, “The Seasons of Buffalo Baseball,” is something of a tribute to Joe Overfield, the legendary late local baseball historian. Here’s…
Book Review: Tom Yawkey
By Budd Bailey Tom Yawkey always had been something of a man of mystery during his time as an adult. He bought the Boston Red Sox as a young man…
