Play By Play : Calling The Wildest Games In Sports--From SEC Football To College Basketball, The Masters And More / Verne Lundquist ; with Gary Brozek.
Edition:
First HarperLuxe edition.
Publisher:
HarperLuxean imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
xiv, 460 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Names and tunes -- Finding my direction -- Cowboy days -- California dreaming, Dallas realities -- New horizons -- Beyond borders -- Yes, sir: a new home at the Masters -- Let's invent us a football player -- The gang's all here -- Live from Lillehammer, it's Verne and Scott meet Tonya and Nancy -- Conference lines and passions -- The tournament and the shot(s) -- In your life: Tiger and other PGA tales -- Lasting memories of the SEC -- Matters of consequence.
Summary:
"Few voices epitomize the sound of sports television quite like Verne Lundquist's. A fixture on air since the 1960s, Verne has covered just about every sport there is, making some of the most enduring calls in the history of sports. In Play by play, Verne looks back at his remarkable career ..."--Excerpted from back cover.
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