Dick Enberg : Oh My!

by Enberg, Dick

• ISBN13: 9781582618241
• ISBN10: 1582618240
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-11
• Publisher: Sports Pub

Summary

What does a play-by-play announcer do when he loses his voice during a basketball telecast? If you're Dick Enberg, suffering from a cold, your voice reduced to croaks and whispers as you try to call your fourth game in two days, you turn to your broadcast partner, the eccentric Al McGuire, during a commercial and ask him to take over. You've never missed a game, but your voice is nearly gone, and you fear the squawking sound that's left must be driving viewers crazy. But you get no sympathy from McGuire. He shakes his head at your plea. "Dicksie," he says, "if you're goin', I'm goin'." So you have no choice. You finish the game. In 50 years of broadcasting, it's the only time that Enberg has come close to missing even one minute of a broadcast. A tireless worker whose boyish enthusiasm for sports has never diminished, he is the most versatile sportscaster in America, calling everything from baseball to water polo in a career that has taken him all over the world.

Author Biography

Jim Perry has spent 40 years as a sportswriter, broadcaster, and athletic administrator, including 10 years as sports information director at USC

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	xi
A Time to Dream	2	(24)
Coming to a Crossroads	26	(18)
It's Like Watching an Accident	44	(12)
Who Does This Guy Think He Is?	56	(16)
The Bruin Ballet	72	(18)
Game of the Day	90	(14)
Tanana and Ryan and Two Days of Cryin'	104	(22)
No One Wanted to Be the Star	126	(18)
``No'' Is a Good Answer	144	(14)
Sisu	158	(12)
On a Set Full of Stars	170	(8)
The Press Box Elevator Was Frozen	178	(20)
Breakfast at Wimbledon	198	(16)
Too Close to Call	214	(10)
The Most Cooperative Athletes in Sports	224	(14)
The Kid	238	(10)
Afterword	248	(3)
Epilogue	251