In more than four decades of sportscasting, Steve Albert witnessed a plethora of sports history in the making. While calling goals, touchdowns, home runs, and knockouts amid historical highlights on grass, canvas, and ice, the native New Yorker’s broad collection of memories involved many humorous moments.
One chapter in Albert’s recent release, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Broadcast Booth,” details his three-year stint as part of MLB’s New York Mets broadcast crew. Albert took the gig in Flushing, New York, after Lindsey Nelson, the famously versatile broadcaster known for countless college football bowl games and as the lead TV voice of Notre Dame football during baseball’s off-season, decided to retire from his baseball post after the 1978 season.
