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Al Michaels is a sportscaster. He won his first Sportscaster of the Year award in 1980, became the second sportscaster in history to receive a News Emmy nomination for his coverage of the San Francisco earthquake during the 1989 World Series, and was honored with a lifetime achievement award at the mehr anzeigen 2011 Sports Emmys. He has covered eight Olympics, was the play-by-play voice of Monday Night Football for 20 years, and is currently the play-by-play voice of NBC's Sunday Night Football. He is the co-author of You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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I've seen Al Michaels on broadcasts for a number of years but didn't know much about him. It was interesting to read about his early interest in and his early years in broadcasting and how he approached it. I most enjoyed the stories where I could identify the event (The U.S. Hockey team winning the Olympic Gold, Mary Decker/Zola Budd, etc.) The book is written in a conversational style that makes it easy to read. At times I could hear Al Michaels' voice in my head saying the words on the page.
Great book. I've always thought of Al Michaels as "just there", which might not sound too good, but to a professional like Michaels, that's actually high praise because it was about the sport and not him. The names! What a career... football, basketball, boxing, hockey, baseball, the Olympics...And what stories! I watched the movies Apollo 13, Secretariat, The Right Stuff and even though I knew what the outcomes were, I (and this is rare for me) got wrapped into them enough to hold my breath at the crucial points. Michaels (and Wertham) was able to reel me in with his chapter on the 1980 Winter Olympics and the US win over the USSR pros. That alone gets five stars.… (mehr)
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Razinha | 6 weitere Rezensionen | May 23, 2017 |
Razinha | 6 weitere Rezensionen | May 23, 2017 | This was a great read! Having a chance to "hear" Al Michaels talk through all the great moments I remember listening to over the last 30 years was wonderful. While reading I could "hear" his voice in my head. The "Do You Believe in Miracles" hockey game, the sportcaster who was nominated for an Emmy for news for his work on the earthquake in San Francisco that happened while they were on the air for a World Series games. An amazing number of Monday Night/Sunday Night football games with announcers like Howard Cosell, Dandy Don, and John Madden. It was a wonderful trip down memory lane.
If you like sports and have ever listened to Al Michaels this is a true treat. Highly recommended.… (mehr)
If you like sports and have ever listened to Al Michaels this is a true treat. Highly recommended.… (mehr)
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He's a better announcer than writer but I can't really find any fault in writing. Sounding like a little boy, his love and enthusiasm for sports, for life, comes shining through the words He comes across a little dazed at the serendipitous path in his broadcasting life.
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