Decided to go with nonfiction on my latest read and figured to give the ESPN book a chance. While I haven’t watched much if any EPSN or really TV in general for several years now, I did use to watch SportsCenter and Baseball Tonight most every day/night in my younger years. So, I figured it’d be interesting to learn about the story behind all that good stuff.
This book was pretty big and comprehensive. It took me quite a while to read through and at times I found it a bit uninteresting. I think that was mainly due to the content when it was regarding the years that I was not an active viewer. The writing was very solid.
I did discover much, especially regarding the early years of the network. Those early chapters not only told the story of their beginnings but also did a solid job of reminding me of how it was like when cable tv was just coming about. I’d forgotten a lot of those early years, but it all came back pretty quickly. I grew up with cable tv, so it was interesting to read through those early years and recall how new it was to me and my brothers at the time.
While a bit too much content for me at times, it was still interesting to me.