This autobiographical account of an Emmy Award-winning New York-based broadcaster is also a collection of stories about sports greats like Muhammad Ali, Howard Cosell, and Joe Namath as well as other stars like Barbara Streisand and Frank Sinatra. In a sportscasting career that has spanned over three decades, Sal Marchiano worked for all three major networks as well as ESPN and WPIX. Now, a man who hung out with legendary athletes is willing to tell all in an up-close look at his own life and career and the many personalities that colored it. Marchiano takes the reader on an almost novel-like journey back to New York City in the crazy, world-changing decades of the sixties and seventies to spend real "face-time" with the greatest heroes from sports' golden era: Mickey Mantle, Fran Tarkenton, Tug McGraw, "Broadway" Joe Namath, and of course, the "Mouth that Roared, " Howard Cosell. Not only do we get to travel back to a better time when athletes weren't only in it for multi-million, no-cut contracts and endorsements, but we get to rub elbows with the stars in the clubs and bars of New York City in that most exciting era of change and find out what the personalities were really like, and the demons that drove them to become the sport legends that still fascinate us today.