Seasons to Remember: The Way It Was in American Sports, 1945-1960

by Curt Gowdy, John Powers

One of the nation's most popular sportscasters remembers what American sports were like in the era before big money, television, and drugs. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Genres: Sports

208 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1993

Reviews

[CallahansBooks · Rating 5 out of 5]

Curt Gowdy led a cool enough life that his recollections are worth reading by almost anyone. If one has even the smallest appreciation for baseball…sports…Boston…and the 20th century, in roughly that order, then Gowdy’s voice will make for a briskly memorable jaunt through decades gone by.

The archetypal baseball announcer tends to collect absurdly fun stories. If it’s not late night hijinks from the road, then it’s a gem from a cultural powerhouse who visited the booth at Fenway.*

It’s good fun, and in many instances Gowdy’s life transcends sporting minutia and climbs all the way up to history.

*Dodgers legend Vin Scully once raced Jackie Robinson on ice skates. I mean, come on.

[John Charles · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good anecdotes about a time in sports history I am less familiar with.

[Ronald · Rating 4 out of 5]

read SOMETIME in 2005