Review by Budd Bailey We love our rivalries in sports. The concept probably started in the 19th century, when the team in my town challenged the team from the town…
Book Review: Tiger & Phil
Book Review: Thunder Snow of Buffalo
Review by Budd Bailey Let’s start with a personal story about the regionally famous snowstorm that hit the Buffalo area on October 12-13, 2006 – known in most places as…
Book Review: It’s Better to be Feared
Review by Budd Bailey As someone who has spent most of the past half-century in Buffalo Bills country, it’s been easy to avoid discussions about the New England Patriots during…
Book Review: The Saga of Sudden Sam
Review by Budd Bailey It’s time for another look at the tragedy and triumph of unfulfilled potential in the sports world. Sam McDowell seemed as if he was one of…
Book Review: No One Wins Alone
Review by Budd Bailey An unusual book, “No One Wins Alone.” There are all sorts of biographies, sports-related or not, out there. This one is simply different in some ways….
Book Review: Pinnacle on the Mound
Review by Budd Bailey The concept is a simple one: track down 10 pitchers who have won a Cy Young Award, have a nice, long conversation with them about their…
Book Review: All In
Review by Budd Bailey How many athletes really mattered in the 20th century? Not too many. Jackie Robinson, absolutely. Muhammad Ali, certainly. Babe Ruth, perhaps (mostly for starting the rise…
Book Review: Miracles on the Hardwood
By Budd Bailey College basketball fans probably have noticed something odd and interesting about their favorite sport. Catholic colleges and universities probably punch over their weight, as they say in…
Book Review: Bracketology
Review by Budd Bailey Basketball fans have learned a new word over the past several years: bracketology. If you were trying to define it, you’d say it is the study…
Book Review: The Big Three
Book Review by Budd Bailey One of the first times that the phrase “Big Three” came up in sports was in the late 1970s. It was used to describe the…
Book Review: True
Review by Budd Bailey It was particularly appropriate – and perhaps a little scary – to read this book shortly after the mass shooting in Buffalo that killed 10 African…
Book Review: Tom Seaver
Review by Budd Bailey I waited about 10 years for someone to get this right. Back around 2011, I read a biography of Tom Seaver called “The Last Icon.” It…
Book Review: How to Beat a Broken Game
Review by Budd Bailey Something has gone wrong in baseball in the past few years. The symptoms are quite obvious. Games take too long to play, and there’s less ball-in-play…
Book Review: Valentine’s Way
Review by Budd Bailey Ah, Bobby Valentine. No matter what you think of him, you have to admit it’s difficult to ignore him. That means the baseball lifer has a…
