Races, Games, and Olympic Dreams: A Sportscaster's Life

Bys: Hammond, Tom and Story, Mark

In sports, not all the long shots who succeed are athletes. In 1984, Tom Hammond, a forty-year-old sportscaster who had primarily worked in Kentucky and the Southeast, got an unlikely opportunity to appear on the NBC Sports telecast of the inaugural Breeders' Cup. Assigned to report from the stall area on what was supposed to be a single broadcast, Hammond performed so well that an NBC executive offered him a chance to call NFL games on the spot...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1985901013
• ISBN13: 9781985901018
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"