Joe Tait: It's Been a Real Ball: Stories from a Hall-Of-Fame Sports Broadcasting Career by Pluto, Terry
Joe Tait: It's Been a Real Ball: Stories from a Hall-Of-Fame Sports Broadcasting Career by Pluto, Terry

Joe Tait: It's Been a Real Ball: Stories from a Hall-Of-Fame Sports Broadcasting Career

"An easy, fun book to read and will surely bring back good memories for Cleveland sports fans...
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Author: Terry Pluto
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Joe Tait: It's Been a Real Ball: Stories from a Hall-Of-Fame Sports Broadcasting Career by Pluto, Terry

Joe Tait: It's Been a Real Ball: Stories from a Hall-Of-Fame Sports Broadcasting Career

$39.83
Joe Tait: It's Been a Real Ball: Stories from a Hall-Of-Fame Sports Broadcasting Career by Pluto, Terry

Joe Tait: It's Been a Real Ball: Stories from a Hall-Of-Fame Sports Broadcasting Career

$39.83
Author: Terry Pluto
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"An easy, fun book to read and will surely bring back good memories for Cleveland sports fans who listened to Tait's trademark calls since 1970." -- 20SecondTimeout.com

Joe Tait is like a family friend to three generations of Cleveland sports fans. This book celebrates his Hall-of-Fame broadcasting career with stories from Joe and dozens of fans, media colleagues, and players.

He was "the Voice of the Cleveland Cavaliers." But to fans, Joe was also "one of us." Cavs basketball, Indians baseball, or Mount Union football, he made the game come alive, and wasn't afraid to speak his mind--even when it might get him in trouble with the coach or the owner.

In high school, Joe loved sports but wasn't always good enough to make the team. Then he discovered play-by-play announcing. Combining two passions, he began to carefully build a broadcasting career that would eventually touch the lives of countless other sports fans.

Pluto weaves a roughly chronological narrative that hits the highlights of a long career. It also uncovers some touching personal details. For example, one chapter describes how Joe's father, a stern man with a deep-rooted distrust of black people, came to become good friends with Cavaliers center Nate Thurmond, to Joe's surprise and delight.

With fans, Joe was often more popular than the players on the court--especially during the Cavs' dimmer days. When notoriously incompetent team owner Ted Stepien fired Joe in the 1980s, fans protested and staged a rally in his honor. When new owner Gordon Gund took over the team, the first thing did was hire Joe back. "He is the franchise," Gund said. "To have a basketball team in Cleveland, you have to have Joe Tait."

His work inspired a generation of young broadcasters. Language he invented became part of the common broadcast language in Northeast Ohio. "Left to right on your radio dial" ... "Wham, with the right hand" ... "It's a beautiful day for baseball " ... "To the line, to the lane ..."

The stories in this book will make fans feel like they're sitting alongside Joe enjoying a play-by-play recap of the remarkable career they shared together.



Author: Terry Pluto
Publisher: Gray & Company Publishers
Published: 11/01/2011
Pages: 259
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781598510706

About the Author
Pluto, Terry: - Terry Pluto is a sports columnist for The Plain Dealer. He has twice been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors as the nation's top sports columnist for medium-sized newspapers. He is a ten-time winner of the Ohio Sports Writer of the Year award and has received more than 50 state and local writing awards. In 2005 he was inducted into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame. He is the author of more than 30 books, including The Curse of Rocky Colavito (selected by the New York Times as one of the five notable sports books of 1989), and Loose Balls, which was ranked number 13 on Sports Illustrated's list of the top 100 sports books of all time. He was called "Perhaps the best American writer of sports books," by the Chicago Tribune in 1997.
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