Review by Budd Bailey “Up & Down” gives us the chance to talk about the curious case (and accompanying autobiography) of golfer Bubba Watson. Here’s someone who is almost tailor-made…
Book Review: Up & Down
Book Review: Baseball Prospectus 2022
By Budd Bailey It can be easy to produce the biggest annual book regarding an upcoming baseball season every year. You’d think at Year 27 they’d get used to the…
Book Review: The Master
Review by Budd Bailey The number of people that hate Roger Federer must be close to absolute zero. Yes, there might be a couple of tennis fans in Spain or…
Book Review: Loserville
Review by Budd Bailey Any discussion about a book called “Loserville” must start with its title. If you only knew that a sports volume was coming out by that name,…
Book Review: Hang Time
Review by Budd Bailey The first time I noticed Elgin Baylor was in 1974, when I was 18 years old. I was in the Basketball Hall of Fame – the…
Book Review: From Hang Time to Prime Time
Review by Budd Bailey For those of you who think the National Basketball Association has been the proverbial big-league organization forever, well, think again. It wasn’t that long ago –…
Book Review: You Are Looking Live!
Review by Budd Bailey It doesn’t take much for a football fan to return to the 1970s. The phrase “you are looking live” ought to do it. That was the…
Book Review: Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
Review by Budd Bailey A good case could be made that the 1936 Summer Olympics were the most dramatic event of its kind in history. Few of the reasons why…
Review: Wish It Lasted Forever
Review by Budd Bailey Dan Shaughnessy can be a tough sportswriter some times. That’s a little more rare than you might think. Criticism of sports figures has become increasingly rare,…
Review: Finding Murph
Review by Budd Bailey “Finding Murph” is one sad story. It’s the latest in something of an informal series of articles and books on the problems in the form of…
Book Review: Year of the Rocket
Review by Budd Bailey Books about the Canadian Football League don’t pop up on this space very often, and for a very good reason – I live in the United…
Review: Papi
Review by Budd Bailey It’s time for another discussion about that literary phenomenon – the double autobiography. And the person in question is baseball standout David Ortiz. Fans of the…
Book Review: Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised
Review by Budd Bailey At its heart, “Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised” isn’t about basketball. It’s more about sociology and urban studies than any other category. The book will be in…
Book Review: The Ice Bowl
Review by Budd Bailey Almost a year after the birth of the Super Bowl, the Ice Bowl was born. That became the unofficial nickname of the NFL Championship game of…
