• Buster Olney

  Buster Olney is a senior writer at ESPN The Magazine. He began covering baseball in 1989, as the Nashville Banner's beat reporter assigned to the Triple-A Nashville Sounds. Later, he covered the San Diego Padres (1993-94), the Baltimore Orioles ('95-'96), the New York Mets ('97) and the Yankees ('98-2001). Olney joined ESPN The Magazine in 2003, after six years at The New York Times, and he's the author of the Times' bestseller The Last Night Of the Yankee Dynasty, a book about the Paul O'Neill-Tino Martinez Yankees' dynasty of 1996-'01.

  He grew up in central Vermont collecting baseball cards and listening to Red Sox, Expos, Phillies and Pirates radio broadcasts, and was a rabid fan of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in the same year as hoops legend Will Perdue, and claims to have witnessed the Commodores' last winning season in football (although anthropologists have not yet confirmed this).

  Olney also contributes to ESPN.com, ESPN Radio, ESPNEWS, SportsCenter and Baseball Tonight.

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