Autos to Airwaves, Mantle to the Mob: Doing It My Way!

by Green, Jerry; Walker, Mike

• ISBN13: 9780974360607
• ISBN10: 0974360600
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-08
• Publisher: How High the Moon Pub

Summary

He's doubled dated with Jackie Kennedy, bar hopped with Mickey Mantle and Billy Martin, survived a kidnapping, and now owns America's largest all-sports radio station. Kansas City entrepeneur Jerry Green has seen it all, done it all, and now he tells it all.

Author Biography

Jerry Green is owner of Union Broadcasting, including WHB 810, America's largest all-sports radion station.Mike Walker wrote sports and other subjects for Pitch Weekly, Kansas City Magazine, and EKC. Mike won the Heart of America for Excellence in Journalism Award in 1994 for his cover story on women's sports.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Kevin Kietzman	vii
Introduction	xi
Acknowledgments	xii
1. Oy Yes, An Only, But Not Lonely Jewish Childhood	1	(14)
2. I Go Ivy League	15	(8)
3 Jackie and the Combustible Aphrodisiac	23	(6)
4. Southern Korean Comfort	29	(10)
5. The Youngest Car Dealer in America	39	(8)
6. Me and the Mob	47	(6)
7. How to Get a Table for Eight	53	(8)
8. Fun and Loafing in Las Vegas	61	(10)
9. Credit Billy Martin With The Save/Paul Hornung Helps me Complete a Pass	71	(6)
10. A Lost, Looney Weekend and I Do My Time	77	(6)
11. Playing with the Playboy Club	83	(4)
12. Budget Minded	87	(6)
13. The Marriage Game: A Strikeout and A Home Run	93	(8)
14. "Banks" a Million	101	(10)
15. Ted Kennedy Slept Here	111	(6)
16. Celebrity	117	(8)
17. She Has My Heart: Now She Has the Floor	125	(10)
18. A Royal Undertaking	135	(6)
19. Another Royal Undertaking	141	(6)
20. Radio Daze	147	(10)
21. The World's Most Expensive Disease and Different Strokes	157	(10)
22. That's Life!	167	(8)
Appendix Adversity Busters	175	(3)
Index	178