You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, And the Perfect Marriage of Sports And Television
“At the start of the book, I wrote about going to Roosevelt Raceway on Long Island with my parents, publishing my tout sheet, Big Al at Westbury, and once correctly picking a 75–1 shot named Algerine to win. Well, when we moved to California, things didn’t change much. My mom—the Original Rascal—would occasionally show up at Hamilton High School, seek out the assistant principal, and explain that her son had a dentist appointment and she was there to pick me up. Naturally, the “dentist appointment” was either at Santa Anita or Hollywood Park, depending on the time of year. We made this our little secret and kept it from my father—he took me to the track only on weekends. And Lila Michaels only further sealed her first-ballot induction into the Mothers’ Hall of Fame when she started taking two of my friends along with us to my dentist appointments. My buddies had a lot of cavities to fill, too.
Decades later, knowing how much I liked horse racing, Dennis Swanson assigned me to work ...the Kentucky Derby on ABC in 1986.MoreLess
Decades later, knowing how much I liked horse racing, Dennis Swanson assigned me to work ...the Kentucky Derby on ABC in 1986.MoreLess
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