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Walt Brown was a successful radio/TV sportscaster and TV news director during the last half of the twentieth century. He broadcast more than twenty different sports, including Major League Baseball, NFL Football, NBA Basketball, as well as auto racing and the Olympic trials. He interacted with major athletes, coaches, movie stars, celebrities and won an Emmy and other awards.

Walt attended Stanford University with a Navy ROTC Scholarship. Following college, Walt served four years, as a naval officer; two at sea and two doing sports play-by-play. He has a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a master’s degree in visual communication from Arizona State University, where he studied with photographers from National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, and Arizona Highways. Walt was a TV news director, leading the second highest rated newsroom in the nation. He has won an Emmy and a number of other awards.

He is published as both a photographer and a poet, as well as having written the book, ”Athletes, Celebrities, Personal Moments, the 60s and 70s.” He has kissed the Blarney Stone, been bitten by a killer tse-tse fly, and climbed the Great Wall of China.

The years within this book, were as they are today: battles for sexual and racial equality. We can see how history repeats itself… As we spend private moments with the names that everyone remembers: Ali, Jesse Owens, Wilt, Pele, the major baseball and football stars, JFK controlling a Democratic Convention, Reba McEntire, auto racers, track stars, swimmers and divers, shared thoughts of the nation’s top football and basketball coaches. Meet those whom you thought were bad/good/other than they actually are. And meet children whose mothers think that they should compete: but they will be successful.

“Blasts from The Past: Athlete and Celebrity Profiles from the 60s and 70s

Brown was a prominent sportscaster in both television and radio back in the 60s and the 70s. It was wild and chaotic during those times, but it paved the way for the popularity of sports and catapulted the glitz and glamor in Hollywood movies and TV today. The book documents his memorable interviews and interactions with the biggest icons in sports history, as well as the rich and famous in Tinseltown: from Muhammed Ali, Jerry Rice, Jesse Owens, George C. Scott, Reba McEntire, and Bob Hope to JFK controlling a convention.

Yes, politics also made waves and headlines with local and foreign decisions as the Vietnam war was ravaging in Asia. …AND: Racial equality concerns were prevalent and turbulent at this time, as were women’s rights issues. Various sports leagues begin to rise prominently, the NBA and NFL to name a couple. What makes Walt’s memoir-documentary stand out is inclusion of events and moments that you don’t find anywhere else. Walt never was a “paparazzi.” His special moments never were in mainstream media or even most sports history references.”