The Best New Sports Broadcasting Books To Read In 2025

The Voice Of Victory: High School Sports Broadcasting Made EasyAre you passionate about high school sports and dream of becoming the voice that brings the excitement of the game to life? "The Voice Of Victory: High School Sports Broadcasting Made Easy" is your ultimate guide to diving into sports broadcasting with confidence and ease. In this comprehensive handbook, seasoned broadcaster and sports enthusiast John Piper demystifies the art of sports commentary, providing practical tips, insider techniques, and step-by-step instructions to elevate your broadcasting skills.

Whether you're a student aiming to start a school sports radio show, a teacher looking to mentor budding announcers, or a community volunteer or booster club member wanting to enhance local sports coverage, this book has you covered. What's Inside:. Foundations of Sports Broadcasting: Learn the essential skills of play-by-play commentary, color analysis, and the dynamics of a successful broadcast team.Preparation and Research: Discover how to research teams, players, and stats to provide insightful and engaging commentary.Technical Know-How: Get acquainted with the equipment and technology used in modern sports broadcasting, from microphones and mixers to streaming platforms.On-Air Techniques: Master the art of clear, engaging, and energetic communication that keeps your audience hooked.Dealing with Challenges: Gain strategies for handling unexpected situations, from technical glitches to on-field controversies.Complete with real-world examples and expert advice, "The Voice Of Victory" is more than just a book—it's your personal coaching guide to achieving broadcasting excellence. Step up to the mic, ignite your passion, and let "The Voice Of Victory: High School Sports Broadcasting Made Easy" help you turn your love for sports into a thrilling and rewarding endeavor. Get your copy today and start your journey towards becoming the voice of victory!

The inspiring, untold story of how Rick and Dee Ray fell in love and conquered the college sports broadcasting game. Unstoppable tells the story of the golden age of college basketball through the eyes of the power couple who ignited the collegiate sports broadcasting boom and set America on the path to frenzied fandom. It is the story of the television revolution Rick and Dee launched-the deals they cut, the producers and talent they hired, the brilliant players, legendary coaches, hard-nosed athletic directors, and perennial collegiate powerhouses who helped lift the sport from its local roots to national prominence.

It is also their love story, from the blind date where they discovered common roots and a shared faith to their long and difficult quest to build a family through adoption. From the moment they met, they were equally ambitious, both possessing a relentless hunger for success. But the day they cashed out and moved to the beach, they realized they had won their greatest prize years before-when they found each other.

2024 TAFWA Book Award Winner. The first comprehensive biography of the preeminent voice of New York sports. For close to half a century after World War II, Marty Glickman was the voice of New York sports. His distinctive style of broadcasting, on television and especially on the radio, garnered for him legions of fans who would not miss his play-by-play accounts. From the 1940s through the 1990s, he was as iconic a sports figure in town as the Yankees’ Mickey Mantle, the Knicks’ Walt Frazier, or the Jets’ Joe Namath.

His vocabulary and method of broadcasting left an indelible mark on the industry, and many of today’s most famous sportscasters were Glickman disciples. To this very day, many fans who grew up listening to his coverage of Knicks basketball and Giants football games, among the myriad of events that Glickman covered, recall fondly, and can still recite, his descriptions of actions in arenas and stadiums. In Marty Glickman, Jeffrey S. Gurock showcases the life of this important contributor to American popular culture. In addition to the stories of how he became a master of American sports airwaves, Marty Glickman has also been remembered as a Jewish athlete who, a decade before he sat in front of a microphone, was cynically barred from running in a signature track event in the 1936 Olympics by anti-Semitic American Olympic officials. This lively biography details this traumatic event and explores not only how he coped for decades with that painful rejection but also examines how he dealt with other anti-Semitic and cultural obstacles that threatened to stymie his career. Glickman’s story underscores the complexities that faced his generation of American Jews as these children of immigrants emerged from their ethnic cocoons and strove to succeed in America amid challenges to their professional and social advancement. Marty Glickman is a story of adversity and triumph, of sports and minority group struggles, told within the context of the prejudicial barriers that were common to thousands, if not millions, of fellow Jews of his generation as they aimed to make it in America.