Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick - The Big Show, Inside ESPN´s SportsCenter, Introduction by Bob Costas

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Bestelnummer: 08-0265

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This book came out some ten years ago, when Olbermann was still allowed on the grounds at Bristol, but it resonates today because a lot of it holds true.  
 
Forget the somewhat dated references to the Macarena, and you'll enjoy it for what it is: two co-workers locked in deadly combat over whether the 1899 Cleveland Spiders deserve mention or not.  
 
Patrick and Olbermann were the anchor for the good times at Sports Center, and they write with absolute candor about their time in bottom-feeding jobs across the country before they fulfilled their destinies as the premier wiseasses for a generation.  
 
The "how-to" chapter on becoming a potential sportscastor is rather intimidating, but they offer helpful hints on how to get started (and to have a back-up plan in case it doesn't work out).  
 
But the real meat of the book is the estimation of atheletes over time. Olbermann and Patrick know their sports, and it shows in the lists they compile of "the greatest".  
 
Note to the fainthearted: Olbermann's arcane knowledge of nineteenth century baseball is mind-boggling, you may want to take a quick walk outside after poring over the lists.  
 
Patrick and Olbermann may no longer be a team, but their book is a great relic of that time when Sports Center truely was "The Big Show". Pick it up today, and you'll never put it down.  
 
Pocket Books (1997), 308 blz. 
Afm. 25 x 18,5 x 3 cm. 
Gebonden (halflinnen) met stofomslag. 
Opdracht op schutblad. 
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