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Big Al : fifty years of adventures in sports broadcasting / Al Meltzer with Robert S. Lyons.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks GV 742.42 .M475 A3 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meltzer, Al.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meltzer, Al.
- Sportscasters--United States--Biography.
- Sportscasters.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Camino Books, ©2012.
- Contents:
- Once upon a time, Big Al was Little Al
- A broadcasting career is delayed by war
- Back to Syracuse with Jim Brown, boxing, and TV
- Basketball, bullfights, and Al's big chance in Philadelphia
- Big 5 basketball : indescribable and unforgettable
- Life in the NBA : not always glamorous, but always an adventure
- Camelot at Channel 3 Eyewitness News
- Life with O.J. and the Buffalo Bills
- Covering the Broad Street Bullies, but missing the parade
- Other towns come calling, but there's no place like home
- Big Al pulls off the only local TV hat trick (plus one)
- Keeping up with colorful birds like Buddy, Dick, and Leonard
- Big Al has Mitch Williams all to himself as the Phillies rise and fall
- A cameo with Rocky and a final fling at Comcast
- Wilt Chamberlain tells all
- for the final time
- Wilt Chamberlain tells more
- A look back and a look ahead.
- ISBN:
- 9781933822419
- 1933822414
- OCLC:
- 748290775
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