I Was There! (eBook)

Joe Buck, Bob Costas, Jim Nantz, and Others Relive the Most Exciting Sporting Events of Their Lives

Eric Mirlis (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
332 Seiten
Sports Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-61321-941-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Take a trip through sports history through the eyes of those covering the biggest events of all-time. In I Was There! sixty-five of the biggest names in sports broadcasting and journalism share their personal experiences at the Top 5 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 first-hand look at what made these events so special. Join legends of the business like Marv Albert, Joe Buck, Bob Costas, Jim Nantz, Bob Ryan, and Dick Stockton as they tell their stories from these indelible moments in time and explain why their five moments stand above all of the others they have seen, and find out why each of them are proud to say I Was There When....Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sportsbooks about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team.Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

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. Eric’s first book, Being There: 100 Sports Pros Talk About the Best Sporting Events They Ever Witnessed Firsthand was published by Lyons Press in 2007. He was also host of Mirl On Sports on Long Island’s WGBB radio. Among the events he has worked are six NBA All-Star Games, two Stanley Cup Finals, a Final Four, and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Mirlis lives with his family on Long Island.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.10.2016
• Vorwort: Marv Albert
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1950s • 2016 • 49ers • advanced statistics • Analytics • Atlantic Coast • ball coach • baseball history • baseball operations • baseball players • baseball prospectus • baseball statistics • baseball story • baseball team • basketball coaches • basketball program • ben sam • casual baseball • clubhouse • coached • coachi • college basketball • college hoops • Data Analysis • dean smith • Dodgers • dugout • duke basketball • duke university batting average • emotionally invested • fantasy baseball • feinstein • Flash • football career • Home Run • independent professional • Indy • job telling • jose canseco • league baseball • league team • lifelong baseball • Lindbergh • March Madness • minor league • Moneyball • NCAA • nfl quarterback • niners • ninth inning • North Carolina • on-base • pacific association • pitchers • pitching staff • podcast stats • professional baseball • regular listener • roster • Sabermetrics • Sonoma • South Carolina • Sport • sports biography • sports broadcasting • Sports History • sports journalism • Spreadsheets • spurrier • starting pitcher • stathead • Statistical Analysis • stompers • tobacco road
• ISBN-10: 1-61321-941-5 / 1613219415
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61321-941-6 / 9781613219416