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: Two Sides of Glory
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: So Many Ways to Lose
Review by Budd Bailey The New York Mets arguably have done less with more than any franchise in baseball, and perhaps in team sports in general. That’s a big statement,…
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: Macho Time
Review by Budd Bailey I had a relatively close, in-person look at Hector Camacho in the spring of 1985. He came to Buffalo to fight Roque Montoya for the NABF…
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…
Book Review: The Captain
Review by Budd Bailey For more than 40 years, the third baseman’s job for the New York Mets read like something like an Abbott and Costello routine – as in…
Book Review: The Quarterback Whisperer
Review by Budd Bailey This obviously is the right time to read a book by Bruce Arians – even a relatively old one. Arians is the coach of the Tampa…
Book Review: The Spencer Haywood Rule
Review by Budd Bailey This sounded so promising at the beginning. The so-called “Spencer Haywood Rule” is a great starting point for a book. Haywood came out of the University…
The Year in Sports Books
By Budd Bailey If you’re anything like me, you probably have had time to do some reading in the past several months. Funny how a pandemic frees up time for…
Book Review: Beating the Odds
Review by Budd Bailey Eddie Olczyk certainly has led an interesting life to date. He was a good hockey player in his day, and went on to make a seamless…
Book Review: The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino
By Budd Bailey If you follow college basketball in particular or even sports in general, you probably heard about the FBI probe into recruiting in that particular sport in 2017….
Book Review: Gods at Play
Review by Budd Bailey You hear the phrase “I couldn’t put it down” when it comes to books. That’s more rare than you’d think. Even the good ones call for…
