Steve Albert's New Book: Tales from the Broadcast Booth

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00:00your nba career alone calling games uh for several different teams from the nets to the sons to

00:09i mean and your brother i think did the pacers forever uh we know your other brother marv did

00:14the knicks forever but you've done just about every team in the league you did games you did

00:20dr j games yeah it goes pretty far back i couldn't hold a job that's that's the problem i i announced

00:28i announced for 13 teams scott in 11 different leagues seven different sports six now defunct

00:39leagues i mean the list just goes on and on and on uh i i had a lot of resiliency bouncing back

00:46but after 45 years uh in this crazy business um people kept telling me you got to write a book

00:54so i did and and here it is a funny thing happened on the way to the broadcast board

01:01what other way could i put it i think it's great and you had uh i mean every everything about it's

01:09funny uh on the back of the book whatever all the uh your brother slammed the book and then you you

01:15had a comment about the book when you were a newborn baby uh yes uh bob costas did the uh

01:22front of the front of the book i thought the forward i thought he uh that was great i mean

01:27literally from the jump this book grabs you by the onions and takes you on a ride in sports that is

01:36truly unequal like i mean the stories about everything uh that i read in it are so amazing

01:43uh from the you know the people that you've worked with alone just the names of the people that you have

01:51worked alongside in the booth calling games that alone is staggering well you know when i called

02:00my brother marv to tell him about the book the first thing he said to me was how did you get this number

02:06and and then when when i asked him when i told him that i was writing a book he said why don't you try

02:13reading one first so i decided to actually write a book and you know some of the stories are funny

02:20some are wacky and bizarre uh hopefully they'll be entertaining um uh right out of the gate i i talk

02:27about um getting locked in my bathroom i was doing morning yeah i was doing morning drive time radio i had

02:35to get up about 3 30 um didn't get much sleep and the i was trying to you know open the door after i

02:42showered and brushed my teeth and everything and shaved i was trying to open the door scott and the the

02:48the door knob was loose and jiggly i couldn't i couldn't open it up then i tried to unhinge the uh

02:54the hinges and they were like painted shut so i had to take a large aerosol can of hairspray

03:01and um punch a hole through through the door and then i i got it just about big enough where i could

03:09slide through but i got stuck in it and i all i have is a towel around me so i had to slide back

03:16and to make a long story short i i did get out of there but um uh you'll have to read the book to

03:22see how how it went after that and if i actually made it to the radio station on time

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