Harry the K: The Remarkable Life of Harry Kalas
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- ISBN13: 9780762438969
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Leader Randy Miller interviewed more than 160 people—including all of Harry’s extant family tree, many of his close friends from childhood to present, copious colleagues from baseball and the NFL, and even Harry’s longtime personal psychologist—to craft a loving and shockingly honest portrayal of one of the most celebrated broadcasters in the history of sports.
With incredible details from all phases of his life—from his upbringing in the Chicago suburbs, to his Hall of Fame broadcasting career in baseball, to his ubiquitous voiceover work with the NFL, to his personal vices for drinking and women, to his legendary friendship with Richie “Whitey” Ashburn, to his ongoing feud with on-air partner Chris Wheeler—Harry the K: The Remarkable Life of Harry Kalas will surprise, delight, and enlighten all fans of the man they called “Harry the K.”
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I’m from New York, so outside of a couple of games on the “Extra Innings” package hearing Harry Kalas doing baseball, my exposure to him was strictly NFL Films & commercials. I was a small unsure buying this book, but I have to say it was brilliant. The chapter on the feud with fellow Phillies broadcaster Chris Wheeler is especially fascinating & probably worth getting just for that. But overall, this is a fine tale of a flawed man who achieved greatness & adulation for his work & the person he was. This is probably what a lot of biographies should be, telling of a life with warts and all, but lacking getting bogged down by it or alternately giving only scant attention to it. I imagine Philadelphia fans would appreciate it even more than I did. One of the best baseball or biographies in all-purpose that I’ve read in a long while.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Randy Miller has place together a brilliant, revealing and pointed portrayal of the life and times of the baritone grand master. He has, in a manner respectful to Harry and his family tree, told the tales that his additional colleagues in the Philadelphia media were too worried to tell. The reader also learns a lot about the lives of Richie Ashburn and Chris Wheeler, related to and independent of their interactions with Harry. The book is a must for any lifelong Phillies fan.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Many across the country may not know “Harry the K”, but nonetheless, you need to read this book! You may start out not knowing who he was, and it pains me to use that in the past tense, but you likely knew his voice.
This is a tale about a solitary, humble man, whose tremendous kindnesses and generosity became legend to the millions who came to know him.
People outside of the broadcasting reach of Philadelphia heard his Campbell Chunky Soup commercials, his Coors Light promotions and many, many others.
He selected up the mantel when John Facenda, the man known as NFL Films’ “Voice of God” left us. He did Notre Dame football and basketball. He was the voice of Westwood One’s weekly NFL radio broadcast.
But, to persons of us in reach of the Philadelphia airwaves, Harry was for thirty-eight years our closest friend and the play-by-play announcer for the Phillies.
At the end, as Mike Jack Schmidt said in his eloquent tribute, “If you can look past Ben Franklin and William Penn, Harry Kalas might have been the greatest person to ever grace Philadelphia”.
I consider myself to some extent a student of history. Schmidt was right!
This is a book that will interest you, captivate you, make you laugh, rage you and make you weep; the latter especially so if you are from Philadelphia or its surrounds. In fact, the final three chapters are absolutely heart-wrenching!
This is not a book about baseball. It’s not a book about Philadelphia. It is a very well researched and written book by Randy Miller about a wonderful, wonderful fun loving, excellent man, who had flaws like the rest of us. But, boy, what virtues! As for now, I’m “outta heeeeere!”
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5