Summary of Al Michaels & L. Jon Wertheim's You Can't Make This Up

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#1 My first memory is of going to Ebbets Field in the summer of 1950 with my father. I was almost six, and the ballpark was a twenty-minute walk from our second-story apartment in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. I remember the colors vividly.

#2 I was a big sports fan, and would spend hours listening to the games on the radio. I would spend hours collecting baseball cards, and memorizing the statistics.

#3 I loved playing sports as a kid, but I loved watching them even more. I would rather go to a Dodger game than play in a game in a park down the street. I dreamed of announcing Major League baseball.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822521810

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Insights on Al Michaels & L. Jon Wertheim's You Can't Make This Up

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

My first memory is of going to Ebbets Field in the summer of 1950 with my father. I was almost six, and the ballpark was a twenty-minute walk from our second-story apartment in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. I remember the colors vividly.

#2

I was a big sports fan, and would spend hours listening to the games on the radio. I would spend hours collecting baseball cards, and memorizing the statistics.

#3

I loved playing sports as a kid, but I loved watching them even more. I would rather go to a Dodger game than play in a game in a park down the street. I dreamed of announcing Major League baseball.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I was a huge fan of the Dodgers and the Los Angeles Rams, and I would go to every game I could. When the Dodgers moved to California, owner Walter O’Malley feared that putting the games on television would hurt them at the gate, but today teams make much more money on television contracts than ticket sales.

#2

I had two criteria when choosing a college: to stay on the West Coast, and to find a school with a radio and television program as well as a campus radio station that allowed students to broadcast sports. I chose Arizona State University.

#3

I had called at least 150 baseball games by the time I graduated from ASU in 1964. I was the sports editor for the school newspaper and wrote a column called The Hot Spot. I had dreams of doing the World Series and the Olympics.

Insights from Chapter 3

#1

My father was a successful sports agent, and he helped develop and produce television programming. He was also instrumental in writing the original American Football League television contract with ABC.

#2

I was in the Sigma Nu fraternity at