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Play-by-Play: Tales from a Sportscasting Insider
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Product Description
Both a memoir and a how-to for anyone who aspires to a career in broadcast journalism, particularly in sports, this book calls on Mercer's vast experience and name-recognition in Texas to give an insider's view of everything from calling play-by-play to interviewing a celebrity athlete. Mercer began his career as the voice of professional wrestling in Dallas in the 1950s, and later went on to be a play-by-play announcer for teams ranging from the Dallas Cowboys to the Chicago White Sox in addition to a brief hard news stint at the time of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas in 1963.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #152526 in Books
- Published on: 2007-09-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Customer Reviews
Bill Mercer is Great
Anything Bill Mercer does reaks of class and sophistication. His career continues even today after over 50 years of hard work. I had the wonderful opportunity to work with Bill Mercer at many places with the first of them being KVIL radio. I remember him tearing through the front door of the radio station being scheduled to be on the air in 10 minutes. We're talking 4:30am. All of this after being up all night on a return trip from a UNT (NTSU) "Mean Green" game. His book describes the behind the scenes of sports in a way that you can't put the book down. Bill Mercer's book should be required reading in every school in the US and Canada and a few other countries
Good book.
Having heard Bill Mercer on the air all of my life, it was nice to read some inside stories of the sports broadcasting world.
