The pride in my heart is well into its fifth decade.
The joy in my heart comes from rekindled friendships.
The grief in my heart comes from those I missed who are in repose.
I felt the above more acutely as I wrote The Early Days of ESPN – 300 Daydreams and Nightmares, the sometimes sexy tattle tales of my brothers and sisters who put their careers on the line to follow the ESPN vision from the get-go.
As I blog, I see seven books on ESPN, all written by authors who weren’t there.
The Early Days of ESPN was.
These stories have been lurking in my subconscious for a long time and tell of ‘SPNauts who rode the rocket off a rickety launch pad and didn’t get a lot of credit.
It will be published on June 4, and SportsEdTV is helping me put signed copies into the hands of sports fans and collectors. You can order one here, and tell me what you’d like me to say.
