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- | ===== I Remember Al McGuire ===== | ||
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- | **Full Title:** //I Remember Al McGuire: Personal Memories and Testimonials To College Basketball' | ||
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- | **Product Description**\\ | ||
- | For three decades, Al McGuire was the heart and soul of college basketball, first as the street-smart head coach at Marquette University and later as the hoops-savvy television analyst whose unique mix of humor, candor, and uncanny insights brought a whole new dimension to sports broadcasting. McGuire was the consummate professional at whatever he did. Possessing an impeccable insider' | ||
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- | McGuire passed away at the age of seventy-two in early 2001 after a long illness, leaving behind a basketball-rich legacy that had its poetic qualities as well. Never was that more evidnet than in the 1976-77 season, when McGuire announced to his team in midseason that it would be his last year in coaching. The season ended with McGuire overcome by emotion, sitting down on the Marquette bench with tears streaming down his face as the Warriors gave their beloved coach the ultimate going-away present, a national championship. Thus ended a twenty-year coaching career in which McGuire completed a 405-143 record, including a 295-80 mark at Marquette. | ||
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- | In I Remember Al McGuire, the legendary basketball coach and announcer is remembered by dozens of associates, who offer their favorite anecdotes, insights, assessments, | ||
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- | **About the Author**\\ | ||
- | Mike Towle is the author of several books in the I Remember Series, with Ben Hogan, Augusta, and the Masters, Walter Payton, Pete Maravich, Arthur Ashe, and Bobby Jones among his other subjects. A former sportswriter with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The National, Towle is president of TowleHouse Publishing and lives in Nashville with his wife, Holley, and son, Andrew. |