Reviews for Burning Up the Air: Jerry Williams, Talk Radio and the Life in Between

The average rating for Burning Up the Air: Jerry Williams, Talk Radio and the Life in Between based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-11-16 00:00:00 Frank Patrick Harry Caray's last season of broadcasting the Chicago Cubs was the 1997 season, 20 years ago. I have been a Caray fan since he started broadcasting with the Cubs in 1982, even sending him a letter inviting him to my shared apartment in St. Louis for Budweisers after the last game against the Cardinals in 1983, a letter I swear I saw him waving around on his first game coverage in 1984, while he spewed, in his way, "We get letters. We get letters." Harry was a fan's broadcaster. An hour after I finished Pat Hughes' short book on Caray, I turned on the Cubs game, and Jim Belushi was singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the 7th Inning stretch. At the end of Belushi's rendition, he shouted, "This is for you, Harry." I find the impact that Caray had on the Cubs and their fans to be amazing. Imagine that 20 years after you've worked people are still talking about you. In fact, besides the Hall of Famers on the 1982 Cubs - Sandberg and Fergie Jenkins, and maybe Bill Buckner, I suspect a majority of Cub fans couldn't name any other member of the team the year that Harry started. That makes his continued appreciation even more amazing. And to think his Cubs years were only half of his career. Holy Cow. I read the e-book version and did not have the CD to listen to. The book promises the CD contains many clips of Harry, and if that were true, this would be a great remembrance of the announcer. Other reviews appear to dispel that belief, so I must rate the non-audio part of the book by itself and for what it was intended to be - a fan's book. For those who want to spend an hour or two reviewing Caray's prolific career, and to see some nice pictures that will bring back memories, this is pretty good. It is written much like a YA book, though, so don't expect the depth you might get in a biography.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-08-27 00:00:00 Margarita Quintana A fast read for lovers of baseball and Harry Caray.