Book description
From HBO's ringside face and voice of boxing, comes a first-person, blow-by-blow account of the evolution of sports television chock full of famous names, history-making events, and never-before-told stories from the world of sports.
Jim Lampley's story is a 50-year travelog of an unlikely career that catalogs the evolution of…
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1 author picked It Happened! as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
As a voice for generations, Jim Lampley is to current boxing fans, what Don Dunphy was to our grandparents. Simply, the voice. This book is Lampley’s blow-by-blow account of the evolution of sports television. From history-making events, and never-before-told stories from the world of sports to an insider’s view of Lampley’s incredible career, it is enlightening and entertaining. I didn’t purchase it because he was the first live reporter on the sideline of a nationally televised college football game, or because he followed in the footsteps of Jim McKay as host on ABC’s Wide World of Sports and Howard Cosell…
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