You could argue but you'd be wrong

By Pete Franklin

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809246740
• ISBN13: 9780809246748
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Radio Legend When It Mattered

Back in the late 1960s to the 1980s, Pete Franklin hosted a sports talk and general talk shows on a small AM station in Cleveland, OH - WERE - and then a highly successful sports talk show, with a brief detour as a low-rated morning drive host, on the 50,000- watt 3WE in Cleveland. Franklin gained a national audience through the booming evening signal of 3WE and had a reputation of truly "telling it like it is" through a variety of characters he portrayed and with regular callers like The Swami, Mr. Sour Apples and Mr. Know It All. Franklin actually saved the Cleveland Cavaliers from relocating to Toronto during the inept years of Ted Stepien's ownership. He called a talk show in that city when Stepien was prepared to announce his intentions of pursuing the relocation and castigated him for telling people in Cleveland that the team would not be moved under his watch. Franklin also shared with the listeners choice comments Stepien had made to the Cleveland media concerning Toronto! Franklin was subsequently sued by Stepien for remarks the talk-show host made nightly on his radio program. To play up the what ultimately was a frivolous lawsuit, Franklin began calling Stepien by the moniker "TS." He held "burials" when the Indians fell out of the pennant chase and nearly had a brawl on his hands when he had the general manager/coach of the WHA Crusaders with a newspaper columnist that was critical of the club. The book was published when Franklin was making the jump to WFAN in New York City. It is unfortunate that health problems precluded Franklin from showing his prime form in The Big Apple. He "retired" to California, working for KNBR and also trying a comeback of sorts at hosting Sportsline for WTAM in Cleveland from the West Coast. That second stint proved that even successful sports talkers can't go home again. Though more a period piece, a reader searching for first-person accounts from a time when radio actually mattered - and sports talk was just beginning to catch fire nationally - should not pass up this book.

Great book for sports nuts

Anyone who's ever listened to Pete Franklin on the radio knows that he is passionate about sports. Take all that fire and fury and put it on paper and you got a great book.