- Buster Olney
Robert Stanbury "Buster" Olney III (born
17 February 1964 inWashington, D.C. ) is a columnist for ,ESPN.com , and covered theNew York Giants andNew York Yankees for "The New York Times ". He is also a regular analyst for theESPN 's "Baseball Tonight ". Olney is one of about 575 voters for theBaseball Hall of Fame .Early life and career
Olney grew up on a dairy farm in Woodstock and
Randolph Center, Vermont , which came in handy when he served as the "Cow Insider" forMike Greenberg 's milking of a cow on "Mike and Mike in the Morning " on June 21, 2007. He was educated atVanderbilt University , majoring in history, andNorthfield Mount Hermon School .After graduating, Olney began covering baseball in 1989, as the "
Nashville Banner "' s beat reporter assigned to the Triple-ANashville Sounds . He later worked at theSan Diego Union-Tribune andBaltimore Sun . He arrived at the "Times" in 1997 and in his first year won anAssociated Press award. He has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for beat writing, in 1997 and 1999.He is one of the most prominent proponents of "traditional"
baseball strategy , often referred to assmall ball , in opposition tosabermetric baseball strategy, which Olney sometimes calls "Moneyball " strategy after the Michael Lewisbook of the same name.In 2004, Olney published "
The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty ", ISBN 0-06-051506-6, anonfiction account of the Yankees' most recent run of championships in the 1990s. The book also considered why the team lost to the Arizona Diamondbacks in the2001 World Series and why it has not won a championship since that time. Since leaving the Times, Olney has become a constant on the ESPN family of networks.External links
* [http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/archive?columnist=olney_buster&root=mlb ESPN.com: archive of Olney's articles]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/ask_reporters/olney.html Ask a Reporter: Buster Olney]
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