I Was There!: Joe Buck, Bob Costas, Jim Nantz, and Others Relive the Most Exciting Sporting Events of Their Lives
Take a trip through sports history through the eyes of those covering the biggest events of all time. In I Was There! seventy of the biggest names in sports broadcasting and journalism share their personal experiences at the top five sports moments they each saw in person. From cultural phenomena like the Super Bowl, World Series, and Olympics to less-well-known sports and games, the people who brought you these moments on television and radio or wrote the stories you read in the newspaper or online give you a firsthand look at what made these events so special. Join such legends of the business as Marv Albert, Joe Buck, Bob Costas, Jim Nantz, Bob Ryan, and Dick Stockton as they tell their stories from these indelible moments and explain why their five moments stand above all of the others they have seen, and find out why each of them is proud to say "I was there!"
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I Was There!: Joe Buck, Bob Costas, Jim Nantz, and Others Relive the Most Exciting Sporting Events of Their Lives
Take a trip through sports history through the eyes of those covering the biggest events of all time. In I Was There! seventy of the biggest names in sports broadcasting and journalism share their personal experiences at the top five sports moments they each saw in person. From cultural phenomena like the Super Bowl, World Series, and Olympics to less-well-known sports and games, the people who brought you these moments on television and radio or wrote the stories you read in the newspaper or online give you a firsthand look at what made these events so special. Join such legends of the business as Marv Albert, Joe Buck, Bob Costas, Jim Nantz, Bob Ryan, and Dick Stockton as they tell their stories from these indelible moments and explain why their five moments stand above all of the others they have seen, and find out why each of them is proud to say "I was there!"
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I Was There!: Joe Buck, Bob Costas, Jim Nantz, and Others Relive the Most Exciting Sporting Events of Their Lives

I Was There!: Joe Buck, Bob Costas, Jim Nantz, and Others Relive the Most Exciting Sporting Events of Their Lives

I Was There!: Joe Buck, Bob Costas, Jim Nantz, and Others Relive the Most Exciting Sporting Events of Their Lives

I Was There!: Joe Buck, Bob Costas, Jim Nantz, and Others Relive the Most Exciting Sporting Events of Their Lives


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Take a trip through sports history through the eyes of those covering the biggest events of all time. In I Was There! seventy of the biggest names in sports broadcasting and journalism share their personal experiences at the top five sports moments they each saw in person. From cultural phenomena like the Super Bowl, World Series, and Olympics to less-well-known sports and games, the people who brought you these moments on television and radio or wrote the stories you read in the newspaper or online give you a firsthand look at what made these events so special. Join such legends of the business as Marv Albert, Joe Buck, Bob Costas, Jim Nantz, Bob Ryan, and Dick Stockton as they tell their stories from these indelible moments and explain why their five moments stand above all of the others they have seen, and find out why each of them is proud to say "I was there!"

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781613219416
Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC
Publication date: 10/04/2016
Sold by: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format: eBook
Pages: 332
File size: 8 MB

About the Author

Eric Mirlis is a veteran of twenty-five years of the sports world. Most recently, Eric was coordinating producer for Fox Sports, with stops before that at CBS Sports Network, NCAA.com, CSTV.com, the NBA, and the New York Islanders. He was also a talent statistician with multiple networks for hundreds of games, most notably with Kenny Albert on NFL and NHL broadcasts and Marv Albert, Mike Breen, and Ian Eagle on NBA broadcasts. Mirlis lives with his family on Long Island.

Marv Albert, a recipient of the Basketball Hall of Fame's Curt Gowdy Award, is currently a broadcaster for Turner Sports.

Table of Contents

Dedication iii

Acknowledgments vii

Foreword Marv Albert ix

Introduction x

Kenny Albert 1

Marv Albert 5

Greg Amsinger 10

John Anderson 13

Harvey Araton 16

Michelle Beadle 22

Mike Breen 27

Thorn Brennaman 31

Ric Bucher 38

Joe Buck 43

Kevin Burkhardt 47

Jeffri Chadiha 52

Freddie Coleman 58

Bob Costas 62

Colin Cowherd 69

Frank Deford 73

Gregg Doyel 76

Ian Eagle 80

Mark Feinsand 86

Bruce Feldman 92

Scott Ferrall 96

Terry Gannon 100

Mike Garafolo 105

Jason Gay 109

Doug Gottlieb 113

Mike Greenberg 117

Mike Hill 121

E.J. Hradek 125

Jerry Izenberg 129

Kostya Kennedy 134

Dave Kindred 138

Andrea Kremer 143

Keith Law 147

Steve Levy 150

Bob Ley 155

Stewart Mandel 161

Hal McCoy 166

Jiggs McDonald 169

Liam McHugh 174

Chris McKendry 179

Bob Miller 183

Jon Morosi 189

Chris Myers 195

Jim Nantz 199

Ross Newhan 204

Rob Parker 207

Gary Parrish 211

Dave Pasch 216

Jeff Pearlman 220

Joe Posnanski 224

Ray Ratto 229

Karl Ravech 234

Dave Revsine 240

Chris Rose 243

Bob Ryan 248

Sam Ryan 253

Jeremy Schaap 257

Jon Sciambi 261

Charley Steiner 265

Dick Stockton 271

Rob Stone 275

Rick Telander 279

Charissa Thompson 282

Mike Vaccaro 286

Adnan Virk 290

Lesley Visser 293

Dan Wetzel 297

Trey Wingo 301

Tracy Wolfson 304

Matt Yallof 307

Index 312

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