Review by Budd Bailey The next time someone claims that the sports section is the Toy Department of a newspaper or magazine, tell them about Jim Kaplan. Better yet, show…
Book Review: Clearing the Bases
Review: The Q Factor
Review by Budd Bailey Looking into the future when it comes to young pro football players is not exactly a science. That’s part of the fun of the NFL draft,…
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: The New Baseball Bible
Review by Budd Bailey How much work went into this book? That’s the initial reaction to picking up a copy of “The New Baseball Bible.” It’s close to 400 pages,…
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…
Book Review: Kooks and Degenerates on the Ice
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: Broph
Review by Budd Bailey There aren’t many “underground” sports legends these days. In a world with social media and cameras everywhere, no one who acts outrageously can be anonymous for…
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: Bouton
Review by Budd Bailey The stories from those who were baseball fans around a particular age in the fall of 1970 are remarkably similar. They were usually boys in high…
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: Toe Blake
Review by Budd Bailey One of the joys of reading history is the way it came make somewhat dusty names from the past spring to life. Take Toe Blake, the…
Book Review: Baseball Prospectus 2020
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: 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…
