Take Me To Post Comment Form From Peanuts to the Pressbox: Insider sports stories from a life behind the mic

By Eli Gold with M.B. Roberts

Thomas Nelson
ISBN: 978-1-4016-0436-3
Hardback, 257 pages
$24.99

If you love University of Alabama football and regional radio and TV, this is your book.

I am neither.

Yet I found a lot to like about it that had nothing to do with football or broadcasting: Successful people get that way by being talented, naturally curious and working their asses off.

I would recommend this book to any football fan as it is full of anecdotes about broadcast media and the characters involved.

But I liked the front half of the book where Gold – who barely graduated from high school – tells stories about his lust for broadcast and his unflinching dedication to taking ANY job just to be around the media he loved.

He sold peanuts, he delivered mail, he engineered broadcasts - anything to be around what he loves.
The book is a quick read with bright descriptions of times gone by and is broken down into segments that are sometimes just a few paragraphs long.

(Perfect bathroom or waiting room reading.)

This is the third collaboration between Eli Gold and M.B. Roberts and they obviously work well together.

This could easily been a regional hit but Gold and Roberts inject the kind of American-dream and a almost-rags-to-riches story based not on winning the lottery or marrying a rich woman or winning a lawsuit.

Make no mistake – this book is about hard work, networking and self-promotion.

In this age when every kid gets a trophy and schools teach that everyone is a “winner” and your nephew sits on the couch watching Oprah and Jerry and complains that he can’t find work, hand them this book.

It proves that a person with a dream – even one who’s not bent towards academics - and a lot of hard work can make himself into a success.

http://www.amazon.com/Peanuts-Pressbox-Insider-Sports-Stories/dp/1401604366/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1253286200&sr=8-3