Vintage HOWARD COSELL 1st Edition Hardcover Book

Description: Vintage HOWARD COSELL 1st Edition Hardcover Book — This 1985 first edition hardcover book has some wear on its dust jacket, but the inside is quite nice and clean. "The One and Only puts it down on paper and tells it like it is. If you don't like this book, you don't like finding out the truth about sports and having fun learning it." -DAN JENKINS, author of Semi-Tough and Life Its Own Self "A grand slam of a book. It touches all the bases with talent, style, and bite.” -DAN RATHER "If you believe as I do that no one has had a greater impact on sportscasting and television sports journalism in the last twenty years than Howard Cosell, then you won't want to miss this book. I Never Played the Game is going to have the same kind of impact on sports readership." -GEORGE STEINBRENNER — Reader Reviews: 5.0 out of 5 stars We should have listened to Mr. Cosell I want to start by offering a sincere and heartfelt apology to Mr. Howard Cosell. I had been unfaitly dismissive of many of his assessments because, ad he states in the title, he never played the game. By his own admission, he was abrasive, annoying, etc. Thing is, the unvarnished truth is quite often a cause for discomfort. However. If you are heading toward a cliff, do you want advice from someone who is fwning over how good you look, or do you want someone to shake you and tell you, Hey! Wake the heck up or you are going over a cliff!!! Howard sounded the alarm and he was ignored. Howard served during WWII. He was an Attorney. He was well educated. Though he nevet played football. Howard knew the game as well as anyone. He was an avid promoter of equal rights, a mighty champion of minorities. If you grew up loving sports, and if you wonder how they came to be as they are today, Read every book Howard ever wrote. I may have groused avout Howard like everyone else, but I mourned his passing because he knew how to see past the glitz and glamor. To cut through to the truth. To pull back the curtain and reveal the truth. Howard, I miss your keen insight. Rest in the arms of God. — 5.0 out of 5 stars Wide World of Sports Goodness gracious, I for one, loved this broadcaster. Smack dab 8 years old in 1973, when "Down goes Fraizer" rang in my ear! I was hooked, and became a boxing fan at a young age when American heavyweights ruled. Thank you Howard, wherever you may be! — Contents: Prologue "Everything's Coming Up Roses" The Low Road to Anaheim Al Davis: I Love L.A. Escape to New Jersey Rozelle's Folly Monday Night Blues One Fight Too Many Taking Off the Gloves Sugar Ray Redux Kuhn's Last Stand The Beat Goes On Monkey Business Going My Way

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Location: North Hollywood, California

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