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About My View From The Gondola And Other Great Places
This book will take readers through a six-month journey which is called minor league professional hockey. It will also take them through steps taken to produce and broadcast high school and college athletic events. You will experience bus rides, airline flights, checking in and out of airports and hotels, finding meals on the road, arranging and recording interviews, and the thrill of doing play-by-play broadcasts. Many people contribute to make every announcer the person they are today. You will meet several people whom I've relied on during the first 38 years of my broadcasting career. These people have wonderful stories that are told in "My View From the Gondola and Other Great Places". Among the people mentioned in this publication, you will meet a former minor league outfielder who convinced his manager to allow him to pitch. He did not tell the skipper that he had not taken the mound since he was in little league. You will meet a minor league hockey player who received a visit to his backyard rink from Wayne Gretzky as a youth and as an adult, during the off-season, managed his sister's rock group on a tour of the east coast. "My View From the Gondola and Other Great Places" tells the human side of minor league players. One worked on a sushi truck in the off-season, another player was on a high school track team's relay team that won a state championship, only to be disqualified after the title heat. There is the story of a team captain who refused to quit and praised the team trainer who rehabbed him back to health following a devastating injury. Readers will also learn of the planned exploits of a goalie if he was able to score a goal and pick up an assist in the same game. Readers of "My View From the Gondola" meet many people who are involved in hockey and their stories. There is a team bus driver who returned to action sooner than his doctor advised after he severed a finger in an accident. Another team bus driver told the story of his look alike cousin w
