And the Crowd Goes Wild: Relive the Most Celebrated Sporting Events Ever Broadcast (Book and 2 Audio CDs)

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Summary: A real emotional sports journey
Review: It's hard not to cry when you hear Lou Gherig's farewell speech, or when the 1980 hockey team beats the Soviets, or "The Giants win the Pennant! The Giants win the pennant!" This book is good, but the CDs are better, because you can imagine listening to the events for the first time and getting caught up in the excitement. Some are less exciting (can you really have a tense golf moment on radio?), but all are inspirational. I got goosebumps from each one. The Stanford-Cal play is still the best piece of sports announcing ever.

Rating:
Summary: A real emotional sports journey
Review: It's hard not to cry when you hear Lou Gherig's farewell speech, or when the 1980 hockey team beats the Soviets, or "The Giants win the Pennant! The Giants win the pennant!" This book is good, but the CDs are better, because you can imagine listening to the events for the first time and getting caught up in the excitement. Some are less exciting (can you really have a tense golf moment on radio?), but all are inspirational. I got goosebumps from each one. The Stanford-Cal play is still the best piece of sports announcing ever.

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Summary: Nice Concept - Costas Ruins It
Review: No matter what sport you are interested in, this book will be something you will find interesting. This is a big glossy picture book that tells a brief history story of sports by looking at key moments in sports history in the last 100 years. There are critical moments that will live forever -- when Babe Ruth pointed his finger and called the shot for his homerun, when Lou Gehrig said goodbye forever to game he loved so much, when Secretariat won the third race to take the Triple Crown, when Nadia Comanedi nailed that perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics, all the way up to when Tiger Woods won the Masters and Mark McGwire passed the Maris home-run record, these are the times. With this book you not only get to read about them and see the pictures, but you get the sounds from the broadcasts, too, on two CDs that are part of this item. With narration by Bob Costas (anyone who watches sports will recognize him) you can relive the moments in sound, color, pictures and words, about as close as you can get to being there. This is a great book, a great gift for any sports fan, and if anyone ever had any doubt about sports being exciting, this book has the moments that will show just how exciting things can get!

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Summary: Wild!
Review: No matter what sport you are interested in, this book will be something you will find interesting. This is a big glossy picture book that tells a brief history story of sports by looking at key moments in sports history in the last 100 years. There are critical moments that will live forever -- when Babe Ruth pointed his finger and called the shot for his homerun, when Lou Gehrig said goodbye forever to game he loved so much, when Secretariat won the third race to take the Triple Crown, when Nadia Comanedi nailed that perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics, all the way up to when Tiger Woods won the Masters and Mark McGwire passed the Maris home-run record, these are the times. With this book you not only get to read about them and see the pictures, but you get the sounds from the broadcasts, too, on two CDs that are part of this item. With narration by Bob Costas (anyone who watches sports will recognize him) you can relive the moments in sound, color, pictures and words, about as close as you can get to being there. This is a great book, a great gift for any sports fan, and if anyone ever had any doubt about sports being exciting, this book has the moments that will show just how exciting things can get!

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Summary: Would be better with video
Review: Obviously, some of the "Classic" events of the sporting world are stunning when heard. Before live television, this was all there was. Sportscasters knew how to broadcast with energy and adjectives to paint the picture. For modern events, sportscasters are so unprepared to radio broadcasts, the listener isn't "in the game." This book, though the selections are appropriate, would be better supplimented with a DVD of the sports highlights.

Rating:
Summary: Would be better with video
Review: Obviously, some of the "Classic" events of the sporting world are stunning when heard. Before live television, this was all there was. Sportscasters knew how to broadcast with energy and adjectives to paint the picture. For modern events, sportscasters are so unprepared to radio broadcasts, the listener isn't "in the game." This book, though the selections are appropriate, would be better supplimented with a DVD of the sports highlights.

Rating:
Summary: Would be better with video
Review: Obviously, some of the "Classic" events of the sporting world are stunning when heard. Before live television, this was all there was. Sportscasters knew how to broadcast with energy and adjectives to paint the picture. For modern events, sportscasters are so unprepared to radio broadcasts, the listener isn't "in the game." This book, though the selections are appropriate, would be better supplimented with a DVD of the sports highlights.

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Summary: It's about time!
Review: One of the finest sports books I've ever read. Mr's Garner and Costas nailed the essence of some of the most important "happenings" in sports. Even though I knew about all of these events, I haven't ever seen or heard them, all in one place before. I want my Grandchildren to know without the legacy of these tremendous athletes, the players we admire today might have never had someone to emulate. Think of The Babe and Henry Aaron giving Ken Griffey Jr. the drive to inspire, and someday putting his name along side theirs.

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Summary: Not bad
Review: The CDs are the only reason to buy this book. HEARING the broadcasts of celebrated sports events can't be compared to reading about them. The written word didn't draw out nearly as much emotion as the CDs.

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Summary: Nice Concept - Costas Ruins It
Review: The idea behind this collection is very nice. Unfortunately this is nothing more than a Bob Costas monologue interspersed with very brief snippets of broadcast footage. Like some of the other reviewers, I found myself wanting to tell Costas to shut up so I could listen to the original footage. His narration is overblown and mostly unnecessary. I recall similar collections focusing on sports and news from the 1960s that were narrated by Curt Gowdy and Walter Cronkite. Those two guys know how to set up a clip without getting in the way of it. Costas tries to be more important than the material and ruins this collection. Mine went straight to EBAY.