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  • Races, Games, and Olympic Dreams

    A Sportscaster's Life

    In sports, not all the long shots who succeed are athletes. In 1984, Tom Hammond, a forty-year-old sportscaster who had primarily worked in Kentucky and the Southeast, got an unlikely opportunity to appear on the NBC Sports telecast of the inaugural Breeders' Cup. Assigned to report from the stall area on what was supposed to be a single broadcast, Hammond performed so well that an NBC executive ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Cody's Wish

    A Boy, a Racehorse, and a Fight for Life

    The heart-stirring true story of a champion racehorse, a courageous boy, and the wish that united themCody Dorman had already beaten the odds when, at age thirteen, he was introduced to a five-month-old Thoroughbred foal in 2018 through Make-A-Wish. Born with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome, Cody had undergone more than forty operations, including two open-heart surgeries before he was three. One doctor ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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    Races, Games, and Olympic Dreams

    A Sportscaster's Life

    by Tom Hammond ...
    Narrated by Danny Campbell ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 48 min

    In sports, not all the long shots who succeed are athletes. In 1984, Tom Hammond, a forty-year-old sportscaster who had primarily worked in Kentucky and the Southeast, got an unlikely opportunity to appear on the NBC Sports telecast of the inaugural Breeders' Cup. Assigned to report from the stall area on what was supposed to be a single broadcast, Hammond performed so well that an NBC executive ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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