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In 1976, Vince Papale was a down-on-his-luck substitute teacher, part-time bartender, and season ticket holder for the Philadelphia Eagles, the team he’d grown up rooting for. He had always loved football, but the closest he’d ever come to playing on Sundays was in local rough touch leagues. Until fate stepped in. Vince was thirty years old and wondering what he would do with his life, when he heard that Coach Dick Vermeil was holding open tryouts for the Eagles. He had nothing to lose, and with the coaches eyeing him, he ran an explosive 40-yard dash in just 4.5 seconds - a world-class time - and was offered a contract on the spot. But, as much as his speed, it was Vince’s heart that impressed Vermeil. But there was more to the story – Vince’s success was tempered by a complicated family life, a past that continued to haunt him, even as a hometown football hero. At its core, Invincible is an underdog story that will inspire others to pursue their dreams, too.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781511360043 | Unabridged edition (Brilliance Audio, January 26, 2016), cover price $14.99 | also contains Invincible: My Journey from FAn to NFL Team Captain
9781501287930 | Mp3 una edition (Brilliance Audio, August 18, 2015), cover price $9.99 | also contains Invincible: My Journey from FAn to NFL Team Captain
9781423324164 | Abridged edition (Brilliance Audio, July 28, 2007), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: In 1976, Vince Papale was a down-on-his-luck substitute teacher, part-time bartender, and season ticket holder for the Philadelphia Eagles, the team he’d grown up rooting for.
One of pop cultureâs great enduring unsung heroes: Gary DellâAbate, Howard Stern Show producer, miracle worker, professional good sport, and servant to the King of All Media, for the first time tells the story of his early years and reveals how his chaotic childhood and early obsessions prepared him for life at the center of the greatest show on earth. Baba Booey! Baba Booey! It was a slip of the tongueâthat unfortunately was heard by a few million listenersâbut in that split second a nickname, a persona, a rallying cry, and a phenomenon was born. Some would say it was the moment Gary DellâAbate, the long-suffering heroic producer of The Howard Stern Show, for better or worse, finally came into his own. In They Call Me Baba Booey, DellâAbate explains how his early life was the perfect training ground for the day-to-day chaos that comes with producing the most popular radio show on earth. Growing up on Long Island in the 1970s, the youngest of three boys born to a clinically depressed mother, Gary learned how to fend for himself when under attack. Obsessed with music, he listened with religious intensity to Casey Kasem's Top 40 every Sunday morning, compulsively bought 45s of his favorite songs, and nerdily copied the lyrics into a notebook. Music became an ordering principle to his life, even as the chaos at home got out of hand. DellâAbateâs memoir sketches the trajectory from the obsessive pop-music trivia buff to the man in the beekeeperâs mask who handily defeats his opponents playing âStump the Booey.â We learn about the memorable moments in his life that taught him to endure epic bouts of humiliation and get his unique perspective on some of his favorite Stern show episodesâsuch as the day he nearly killed the Mets mascot while throwing out the first pitch, or the time his mother called Howardâs mother and demanded an apology. Hilarious, painful, and eye-opening, itâs Gary as youâve never seen him before, telling a story that even Stern show insiders canât begin to imagine.From the Hardcover edition.
Paperback:
9780812981896 | Reprint edition (Spiegel & Grau, May 31, 2011), cover price $16.00 | also contains They Call Me Baba Booey
Miscellaneous:
9780679604433 | Spiegel & Grau, November 2, 2010, cover price $25.00
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9780307878373 | Unabridged edition (Random House, November 2, 2010), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: One of pop cultureâs great enduring unsung heroes: Gary DellâAbate, Howard Stern Show producer, miracle worker, professional good sport, and servant to the King of All Media, for the first time tells the story of his early years and reveals how his chaotic childhood and early obsessions prepared him for life at the center of the greatest show on earth.
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