Review by Budd Bailey Fifty years? Fifty years. It’s been a half-century as of 2020 since Bobby Orr did a Superman impression for the Boston Bruins, flying through the air…
Book Review: Kooks and Degenerates on the Ice
Book Review: Mr. Met
Review by Budd Bailey We’ve been lucky enough to receive the SNY feed of New York Mets broadcasts for the past several years. Some of the baseball hasn’t been too…
Book Review: Three Seconds in Munich
Review by Budd Bailey The publication of a book like “Three Seconds in Munich” brings up something of a quandary for a book reader – and, more specifically, a book…
Book Review: Losers
Review by Budd Bailey There are plenty of sports anthologies out there if you go looking for them. There are books about the best writing of a particular year, the…
Book Review: The Wax Pack
Review by Budd Bailey “The Wax Pack” starts with an interesting concept from an unusual baseball author. Brad Balukjian doesn’t have the standard biography. He has a Ph.D. in entomology…
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: The Best American Sports Writing 2019
Review By Budd Bailey It’s never easy to come up with a new way to review a book in an annual series – particularly one that is as consistently good…
My favorite sports books of 2019
By Budd Bailey I read 46 sports books that were published in the past five years during the course of 2019. I read several other titles that either had nothing…
Book Review: Don’t Be Afraid to Win
Review by Budd Bailey There are plenty of things going on off of our sporting fields that affect what happens on the actual playing surface. Jim Quinn knows all about…
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: All the Way
Review by Budd Bailey If there was ever a review-proof book, “All the Way” is it. Those who grew up watching – and perhaps idolizing – Joe Namath fling footballs…
Book Review: The Great American Sports Page
Review by Budd Bailey It seems that “The Great American Sports Page” has created more buzz in the media than most of the other new sports books this year. It’s…
Book Review: The Team That Couldn’t Hit
By Budd Bailey I am back in the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) after more than 30 years, and during that time the organization has prospered. This is a…
