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The sports journalist recalls half a century on the sidelines and in the locker room, from shadow boxing with Muhammad Ali to verbal gymnastics with Lenny Bruce, in an anecdotal account of his fifty-year career.
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Over the course of five decades, Dick Schaap carved out his own legend with his reportorial verve, his indefatigable curiosity, and his irrepressible wit. This memoir, the last book from the former ABC correspondent and host of ESPN's The Sports Reporters, recounts a charmed career in which he met almost everyone and saw almost everything. Schaap walked with sluggers and senators, cops and comedians, authors and actresses. The sights he saw and the words he heard are all here in stories that will make you laugh and cry.With an introduction by Tuesdays with Morrie author Mitch Albom, Dick Schaap As Told To Dick Schaap offers the ultimate highlight reel of the last fifty years and makes a compelling case that if the revered journalist wasn't there to see it, it didn't happen.
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