The Wild World of Sports: Over A Century of Amusing Stories and Quotes - Softcover

Elston, Gene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1420817132 ISBN 13: 9781420817133

Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2005

Synopsis

Sports personalities are too often pictured as completely serious competitors, giving their all for the game. While sports naturally involves a very serious attitude, there is also a lighter side which fans are seldom aware.This book has been compiled from a collection of those brief and pointed anecdotes as well as some of the outstanding short sports stories. Fortunately I had the foresight to begin and maintain a voluminous collection of sports humor over the years from which I have extracted what I feel are the best and most worthy of remembering.I hope you will find this intriguing collection of sports humor and wit one of the most enjoyable, amusing and refreshing books it will ever be your pleasure to read

About this title

About the Author:

Gene began his long tenure of baseball play-by-play in 1946 with Waterloo, Iowa, in the Three-I League and Des Moines in the Western League. Eight years later (1954) the Chicago Cubs brought him to the National League. He left the Cubs following the 1957 season and joined "Mutual's Game of the Day". Following three seasons with Mutual, Elston joined the expansion Houston Colt.45s/Astros and remained with that club for the next 25 seasons. After departing the Astros he spent the next 10 seasons covering Baseball's CBS Radio Game of the Week and simultaneously worked with Tal Smith Enterprises in baseball arbitration, consulting and research.Gene also worked other sports in the off season: Big Ten football with Iowa and Northwestern, the University of Houston and Southwest Conference radio and television football and basketball.The Wild World of Sports is Elston's third book - THAT'S THE WAY THE BALL BOUNCES back in the 1970s and more recently A STITCH IN TIME - A BASEBALL CHRONOLOGY, 1845-2002. In his minor league days he designed his own baseball scorecard and placed it on the market as a scorebook - designed especially for announcers. In the early 1980s he realized a revised format would reach not only announcers but also a new method of scoring for fans. Today the book is still recognized as the most popular scorebook in the nation. Find it on baseballscorebook.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1420817132
• ISBN 13: 9781420817133
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132