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by Mark Finkenstaedt
courtesy of Achiever magazine, University of
Maryland University College
Our
2002 book,
Johnny Holliday: From Rock to Jock,
received great reviews and reader response. Thanks
to everyone who helped make it a success.
We
still have some signed first
editions
available.
You
think Johnny Holliday is a great sportscaster? You should've
seen him on the court, as a blazing point guard on various
radio station basketball teams. And you should've heard
Johnny as a rapid-fire DJ, spinning stacks of hot wax
at topflight Top 40 stations, from San Francisco to
New York City. Stephen
Moore
slows him down just enough to tell you Johnny's amazing
story."
--
Ben Fong-Torres, Author, "The Hits Just Keep On
Coming. (Backbeat Books)
:
Tony Kornheiser generously contributed a beautiful
FOREWORD, and ESPN's Dick
Vitale provided an upbeat AFTERWORD. Also included
are Johnny's wife, Mary Clare, daughters, Kellie,
Tracie, and Moira; sister, Charlene, and brother, Bobby
Lee; and
Gary Williams (U-MD Basketball Coach),
Ralph Friedgen (U-MD Football Coach), Dr.
Debbie Yow (U-MD Athletic Director), Grace
Slick, (Jefferson Airplane) Rick
Barry,(Basketball Hall of Famer), Sal
Bando, (World Champion Baseball),
Jack Scarbath (U-MD famed quarterback),
Robert Novak,
(CNN's Capital
Gang),
Ben Fong-Torres (author featured in "ALMOST
FAMOUS"),
John Feinstein (Author, "A
Season on the Brink"), Sal Licata (President
of EMI, Chrysalis), Joel Chaseman
( President of Post-Newsweek, retired),
Jonathan Claiborne (Terps Football color analyst),
Len
Diebert (Business Now), Shelby
Whitfield (ABC Executive and Howard Cosell's
biographer),
Ed Walker and Willard
Scott(The
Joy Boys), Arnie Schorr
(WVRM,
WBZ, KHJ), Neil McIntyre
(WHK and WINS), Jack
Zane (U-MD), Greg Manning
(Athletic Director, GA State) , Don Lewis (Atlanta,
GA), Carl Maduri
(Record Producer, MAS Records), Chris
Knoche (U-MD Terps basketball color analyst), Dave
Statter (WUSA-TV),
Art Thompson (baseball scout), Mike Rizzo (ABC Executive),
Peter Altshuller (Murray the K's son), Scott Burton
(WHK and WWDC), Ed Hider
(WINS and KYA), Doug
Hill (WJLA Weather), Fred
Manfra, ("Voice of the Orioles"), Mike Dawson (WMAL),
Tim
Strachan (U-MD, 1999 Washingtonian of the Year),
Buddy Piccolino (Actor), Jerry
St. James, (San Diego's "Jeff and Jer"
on Star 100.7), Charley
Casserly (General Manager, Houston Texans), Mark
Duffner ( Defensive coordinator/linebackers coach
for the Cincinnati Bengals), Tony
Roberts (Westwood One, and " Voice of Notre
Dame") ,Chris Core (WMAL-AM
63),
Larry
Kirby (WWDC), Jack
Kyrieleison (author/actor), Toby
Orenstein, (Toby's Dinner Theatre), Bob Moke (radio
programmer), and many, many others.
" I
guess I haven't had any great sense of myself as history
because as I lived my life, that was enough for me.
But it is good to know what the past
has been: that enables you to enjoy the present. Therefore
I appreciate this assembly of such a host of names of
my fellow players and such a grand recording of past
events. The memories rush back! I appreciate the research
effort which went into this volume which will remind
me of so much I had forgotten in my long and overcrowded
life. Donn Murphy and
Stephen Moore remember more about me than I do,
I can tell you that! This project
has been a delight to me. But the best part was living
it, and for that I give thanks!"
I was 12 when Frank Zappa's
first record - The Mothers of Invention's FREAK
OUT - was released in 1966. I bought it on the
merits of its bizarre cover art alone. I knew
nothing about this "group" and had
never heard any of their music. I loved it at
first listen. I immediately thought I understood
Zappa. He was telling me that it was somehow
OK to be me, to be human.
Please
contact me at SMooore@aol.comif
you are interested in having a book signing event
with Johnny Holliday.
We donate proceeds from book sales to charitable events.
Thanks.