Buster Olney is currently a columnist for ESPN: The Magazine, ESPN.com, and was formerly lead Sports Editor at The New York Times. He is also a regular analyst for the ESPN television program "Baseball Tonight". ESPN, an abbreviation of Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Baseball Tonight is a highlight and conversation show on ESPN, relating to baseball. ...

Olney was educated at Vanderbilt University and Northfield Mount Hermon School. He is one of the most prominent proponents of "traditional" baseball strategy, sometimes referred to as Smallball, in opposition to sabermetric baseball strategy, which Olney sometimes calls Moneyball strategy after the Michael Lewis book of the same name. Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (colloquially known as Vandy) is a private, non-sectarian, coeducational university in Nashville, Tennessee. ... Northfield Mount Hermon Northfield Mount Hermon (NMH) is a ninth-twelfth grade private college preparatory high school (secondary school) located in western Massachusetts, U.S.A. Its Northfield campus is located in Northfield, Massachusetts, and its Mount Hermon campus is located in nearby Gill, Massachusetts. ... Baseball is a team sport, in which a fist-sized ball is thrown by a defensive player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat. ... A strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. ... Sabermetrics is the analysis of baseball through objective evidence, especially baseball statistics. ... Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael M. Lewis in 2003 about the general manager of the Major League Baseball team Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane, and his teams approach to running the organization. ... Michael Lewis is an American contemporary non-fiction author. ... Look up Book in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A book is a collection of leaves of paper, parchment or other material, bound together along one edge within covers. ...

In 2004, Olney published The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty, ISBN 0060515066, a nonfiction account of the Yankees' most recent run of championships in the 1990's. The book also considered why the team lost to the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 2001 World Series and why it has not won a championship since that time. 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Non-fiction is a truthful account or representation of a subject which is composed of facts. ... New York Yankees American League AAA Columbus Clippers AA Trenton Thunder A Charleston RiverDogs Tampa Yankees Staten Island Yankees R Gulf Coast Yankees The New York Yankees are a Major League baseball team based in The Bronx, New York City. ... Arizona Diamondbacks National League AAA Tucson Sidewinders AA Tennessee Smokies A Lancaster JetHawks South Bend Silver Hawks Yakima Bears R Missoula Osprey The Arizona Diamondbacks are a Major League Baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. ... The 2001 World Series was one of the most exciting Series in recent memory. ...

Olney's full birth name is Robert Stanbury Olney III.

External links

• ESPN.com: archive of Olney's articles