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…
Book Review: Full Count
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…
Book Review: K – A History of Baseball in 10 Pitches
Review by Budd Bailey It would seem that Tyler Kepner has been doing some work on the side for the past several years, and I’m not talking about trying to…
Book Review: Baseball Prospectus 2019
By Budd Bailey The gang from Baseball Prospectus has been hard at work evaluating players and teams for almost a quarter of a century. At some point, the writers probably…
Book Review: 108 Stitches
By Budd Bailey What’s the next best thing to having dinner with Ron Darling? Reading “108 Stitches” by Ron Darling. This is one of those books that’s thankfully easy to…
The Curse of Dave Roberts
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Before the 2018 World Series fades completely into the rear view mirror’s distance, let’s examine some 21st century baseball history. You may have…
Four outs and seven innings?
By Budd Bailey It’s time to think out of the box for a bit, if you will pardon that well-worn phrase. The current issue of “Mensa Bulletin” magazine has a…
