Reviewed by Budd Bailey A quick Google search for the phrase “thinking outside the box” reveals more than 5 million hits. Quite a few trees have been chopped in forests…
Book Review: How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius
Book Review: America’s Game in the Wild-Card Era
Review by Budd Bailey A discussion of most books starts with thoughts about the execution of the publication rather than the creation of the idea behind it. “America’s Game in…
Book Review: Bases to Bleachers
Review by Budd Bailey There’s only one way to start a discussion about Eric C. Gray’s book, “Bases to Bleachers” – with a story. When I was seven years old,…
Book Review: Two Sides of Glory
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: Boxed Out of the NBA
Review by Budd Bailey What’s better than reliving a fun part of your childhood, and perhaps making a little money along the way? Nothing, of course. That’s what author Syl…
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: The Best American Sports Writing 2020
Review by Budd Bailey To use a newspaper term, it’s sadly time to put a “-30-” at the end of the Best American Sports Writing series as its presently constituted….
Book Review: Attacking the Rim
Review by Budd Bailey It’s easy to wonder if Dave Bing considered borrowing the words “I Led Three Lives” for his new autobiography. That was the name of a 1952…
Book Review: Willie
Review by Budd Bailey t took the National Hockey League quite a while to learn what a special player and person Willie O’Ree was and is. Luckily, we now have…
Book Review: Catch 22
Review by Budd Bailey A few years ago, I had a good-sized chat with Rick Vaive at a banquet. I knew him very slightly when he was a member of…
