Of Mikes and Men: A Lifetime of Braves Baseball

Of Mikes and Men: A Lifetime of Braves Baseball

Of Mikes and Men: A Lifetime of Braves Baseball

Of Mikes and Men: A Lifetime of Braves Baseball

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Overview

As a boy growing up in upstate New York, Pete Van Wieren dreamed of becoming the play-by-play voice of his hometown heroes, the Triple A Rochester Red Wings. Instead, he found big-league broadcast heaven in Atlanta. In 1976, Van Wieren and another young broadcaster named Skip Caray, son of the legendary Harry Caray, were hired to call Atlanta Braves games. Over the next three decades, they were the voices of America's Team, as the Braves became known thanks to Ted Turner's TBS superstation. For 33 seasons, Van Wieren - nicknamed "the Professor" for his scholarly approach to baseball and resemblance to a college professor - saw it all and called it all, including mercurial owner Ted Turner's one-game stint as the Braves' manager in 1976. And then, in the midst of 15 seasons of mostly awful and often hilariously inept baseball, came the Miracle of 1991, when the Braves went from worst to first, captured Atlanta's heart, and nearly won one of the greatest World Series ever played.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781617490859
Publisher: Triumph Books
Publication date: 04/01/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 224
File size: 661 KB

About the Author

Pete Van Wieren is a retired sportscaster best known for serving 33 of his 43 career years as the Major League Baseball play-by-play voice of the Atlanta Braves. He is an 11-time winner of the Georgia Sportscaster of the Year Award and an inductee of the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame. He lives in Alpharetta, Georgia. Jack Wilkinson has been writing about sports since 1973 for newspapers in Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, and New York and is a three-time Georgia Sportswriter of the Year. He is an official scorer for the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field. He is the author of 100 Things Braves Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, Focused on the Top: Georgia Tech's Championship Story, and Game of My Life: Atlanta Braves. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Long Drive Home 1

Chapter 2 Growing, Going…Gone 11

Chapter 3 Radio Days 21

Chapter 4 A Brave New World 31

Chapter 5 Torre! Torre! Torre! 45

Chapter 6 Changing Times 55

Chapter 7 Worst to First 63

Chapter 8 We Need a Fireman 77

Chapter 9 A Season Lost an Answer Found 89

Chapter 10 From the Surreal to the Sublime 95

Chapter 11 The Rotten Apple 107

Chapter 12 Other Sports, Other Venues 119

Chapter 13 The Bridesmaid Years 133

Chapter 14 Of Mikes and Men 149

Chapter 15 "We're Losing Our Vin Scullys 159

Chapter 16 End of an Era 167

Chapter 17 The Final Year 175

Chapter 18 Losing a Friend, a Partner, a Legend 183

Chapter 19 So You Want to be a Big League Broadcaster 191

Chapter 20 Reflections on a Fortunate Life 199

Acknowledgments 209

Index 211

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