Real McKay: My Wide World of Sports

Title: Real McKay: My Wide World of Sports
Author: Jim McKay
ISBN: 9780525944188
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Published: 1998
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 304
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
C: 1698219
Section: Biography & Autobiography | Sports
Publisher Description: The "Cal Ripken" of broadcasters delivers a revealing memoir covering both the greatest sporting events and his own persona triumphs

For his fifty years in sports, many of those spent as chief anchorman of ABC-TV's "Wide World of Sports", Jim McKay has been the face and voice, the heart and soul of sports in American television. For many, he is best known for his coverage of eleven Olympics, most memorably for his anchoring during the tragic events at the Munich Olympics of 1972. During the hours from the taking of Israeli hostages by terrorists to the horrifying death of these athletes, Jim McKay remained a voice of reason and calm.

Watched by millions over the years, Jim McKay proved his skill and talent covering the Triple Crown horse races, the greatest golf championships, and other sports of all stripes and wild colors. He was the first television sports person to win an Emmy (he's won thirteen in his lifetime). Last fall in Baltimore he threw out the first ball at an Orioles-Indian American League championship game.

Throughout his career, Jim McKay has always displayed his trademark warmth and humor. This warm and absorbing memoir gives the reader not only a fascinating look at one man's view of sports, but of the integrity of the man himself.