And the Fans Roared: The Sports Broadcasts that Kept Us on the Edge of Our Seats

Joe Garner

Sourcebooks, 2000 - Performing Arts - 177 pages

Heroes Triumphed.
Announcers Went Wild.
And The Fans Roared.
Feel The Thunder Again.

Featuring the riveting stories that bring you back to the moment, acclaimed sports photographs and two audio CDs narrated by award-winning sports journalist Bob Costas, And The Fans Roared delivers more than forty of the most spine-tingling sports moments ever broadcast.

Joe Garner's bestselling book And The Crowd Goes Wild left sports fans clamoring for more of the thrilling events that brought them to the edge of their seats. And The Fans Roared delivers.

In gripping style, And The Fans Roared highlights announcers' surprised, amazed and awestruck calls from every major sports arena - from baseball, football, basketball and the Olympics, to hockey, auto and horse racing, tennis, boxing, cycling and golf.

Accompanying this book, the two audio CDs highlight the exciting moments that brought us to our feet, when heroes reached for the stars, announcers reached for the words to describe them. . . and the fans roared!

Relive the most electrifying sports moments ever broadcast, including:

September 29, 1954 - Willie Mays Makes The Catch"
October 25, 1964 - Jim Marshall Runs the Wrong Way
January 22, 1973 - George Foreman Beats Joe Frazier
"Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!"
February 23, 1980 - Eric Heiden Dominates Winter Olympics
October 7, 1984 - Walter Payton Breaks Career Rushing Record
"Looking for the record. . . he's got it!"
September 11, 1985 - Pete Rose Smacks Hit No. 4,192
"It is pandemonium here at Riverfront Stadium!"
May 7, 1989 - "The Shot": Michael Jordan Beats Cleveland
March 28, 1992 - Duke Beats Kentucky on Laettner Buzzer-Beater
October 23, 1993 - Joe Carter Homer Wins World Series
August 1, 1996 - Michael Johnson Wins 200 and 400 Gold in Atlanta

Hear each memorable broadcast again - or for the very first time in this New York Times bestseller!"

About the author

Joe Garner is the New York Times bestselling author of We Interrupt This Broadcast and is a twenty-year veteran of the radio business, including eleven years as an executive with Westwood One. His expertise on the media's coverage of major events has been featured on Weekend Today, CNN, CBS Up-to-the-Minute and hundreds of radio programs nationwide. We Interrupt This Broadcast was also a bestseller in the Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly and USA Today. Bob Costas has won the Emmy Award as Outstanding Sports Broadcaster eight times & has been named National Sportscaster of the Year by his peers seven times. He has also received Emmy Awards for his writing, interviewing, & reporting. In addition to his sports broadcasting, Costas hosted the Emmy Award-winning interview show "Later...with Bob Costas" on NBC, & will be hosting a new sports journalism program on HBO beginning in February 2001. A native New Yorker, Costas now lives in Saint Louis, Missouri.

Bibliographic information

• Title: And the Fans Roared: The Sports Broadcasts that Kept Us on the Edge of Our Seats
• Author: Joe Garner
• Contributor: George Foreman
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Sourcebooks, 2000
• ISBN: 1402200307, 9781402200304
• Length: 177 pages
• Subjects: Performing Arts / Radio / General; Performing Arts / Television / General; Social Science / Media Studies; Sports & Recreation / History