In My Rear View Mirror

This autobiographical account of an Emmy Award-winning New York-based broadcaster is also a collection of stories about sports greats like Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell, and Joe Namath as well as other stars like Barbara Streisand and Frank Sinatra. In a sportscasting career that has spanned over three decades, Sal Marchiano worked for all three major networks as well as ESPN and WPIX. Now, a man who hung out with legendary athletes is willing to tell all in an up-close look at his own life and career and the many personalities that colored it. Marchiano takes the reader on an almost novel-like journey back to New York City in the crazy, world-changing decades of the sixties and seventies to spend real "face-time" with the greatest heroes from sports' golden era: Mickey Mantle, Fran Tarkenton, Tug McGraw, "Broadway" Joe Namath, and of course, the "Mouth that Roared, " Howard Cosell. Not only do we get to travel back to a better time when athletes weren't only in it for multi-million, no-cut contracts and endorsements, but we get to rub elbows with the stars in the clubs and bars of New York City in that most exciting era of change and find out what the personalities were really like, and the demons that drove them to become the sport legends that still fascinate us today. This story is also the journey of growth of a sportscaster in an age when his own medium, television sports casting, was changing as fast as the sports world around him. Because sports reporting back then was a 24/7 adventure of life and partying, readers will revisit an age when singles bars were first coming into vogue, and find out what "The Stew Zoo" meant to both sports stars and starry-eyed female visitors to thecity. Readers will zoom in close to see how the master of modern sports coaching excelleMarchiano, Sal is the author of 'In My Rear View Mirror' with ISBN 9781893224940 and ISBN 1893224945.