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Magnolia to the Majors: Memoirs of a native son who helped write the history of Seattle sports
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These memoirs of respected Seattle sports journalist Bill Knight offer the reader an inside look behind the scenes of a variety of sports competitions during his distinguished 43-year career. They also describe what it was like when he was growing up during the Great Depression and the hardships of life in Seattle in World War II.
The chronicle of Knight’s path to becoming a journalist includes a wide range of compelling stories from his days in the press boxes and dressing rooms of sports venues across America and takes a close look at Seattle’s as it emerged as a major league sports city.
As a sportswriter, executive sports editor, national correspondent and sports editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (P-I), Knight covered a wide range of action, from Super Bowls to the Iditarod dog races in Alaska. (Did you ever try to talk with more than 1,000 dogs barking simultaneously?)
His stories, when covering four Super Bowls, several Rose Bowls, playoffs and all-star games in baseball, basketball and football, World Cup Soccer, America’s Cup sailing, the Henley Royal Regatta of rowing in England, the Goodwill Games in Russia, among others, are entertaining as well as insightful.
The list of prominent athletes and sports figures Knight covered or interviewed would resemble a who’s-who of sports personalities over a span of several decades. Knight won a variety of national and regional sports writing honors, including the Jim Murray Outstanding Sportswriter Award in 1999.
One of the book's most intriguing characters is Will Hudson, Knight’s grandfather and a hard-charging newsreel cameraman for Pathè-RKO, who inspired Knight's decision to follow a career in journalism. Hudson, the P-I’s photographer early in the 1900's, later chronicled one of his adventures in a book, Icy Hell. Also meet Knight’s family - parents and siblings - and the grandparents who settled in the Magnolia neighborhood not long after 1905.
When he was attending Seattle’s Queen Anne High School, Knight played on the same basketball team with Bob Houbregs, who went on to be an All-American at the University of Washington and a pro basketball player. Knight details the tribulations of getting his journalism degree at UW and he remains to this day a loyal Husky (amid a family of numerous WSU Cougars, starting with Bill’s maternal grandmother who was a member of the 1899 graduating class of four men and four women).
The description of Knight’s experiences in retirement includes playing Santa Claus in the Nordstrom store window in downtown Seattle and teaching a UW business writing class. Knight’s travels read like something akin to a Conde Nast Traveler’s brochure. His comments about numerous family members and friends are warm and entertaining. The reader will find this book fascinating, especially if you are a sports fanatic. The book is at times historical, humorous and entertaining and will be an enjoyable read.
The chronicle of Knight’s path to becoming a journalist includes a wide range of compelling stories from his days in the press boxes and dressing rooms of sports venues across America and takes a close look at Seattle’s as it emerged as a major league sports city.
As a sportswriter, executive sports editor, national correspondent and sports editor at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (P-I), Knight covered a wide range of action, from Super Bowls to the Iditarod dog races in Alaska. (Did you ever try to talk with more than 1,000 dogs barking simultaneously?)
His stories, when covering four Super Bowls, several Rose Bowls, playoffs and all-star games in baseball, basketball and football, World Cup Soccer, America’s Cup sailing, the Henley Royal Regatta of rowing in England, the Goodwill Games in Russia, among others, are entertaining as well as insightful.
The list of prominent athletes and sports figures Knight covered or interviewed would resemble a who’s-who of sports personalities over a span of several decades. Knight won a variety of national and regional sports writing honors, including the Jim Murray Outstanding Sportswriter Award in 1999.
One of the book's most intriguing characters is Will Hudson, Knight’s grandfather and a hard-charging newsreel cameraman for Pathè-RKO, who inspired Knight's decision to follow a career in journalism. Hudson, the P-I’s photographer early in the 1900's, later chronicled one of his adventures in a book, Icy Hell. Also meet Knight’s family - parents and siblings - and the grandparents who settled in the Magnolia neighborhood not long after 1905.
When he was attending Seattle’s Queen Anne High School, Knight played on the same basketball team with Bob Houbregs, who went on to be an All-American at the University of Washington and a pro basketball player. Knight details the tribulations of getting his journalism degree at UW and he remains to this day a loyal Husky (amid a family of numerous WSU Cougars, starting with Bill’s maternal grandmother who was a member of the 1899 graduating class of four men and four women).
The description of Knight’s experiences in retirement includes playing Santa Claus in the Nordstrom store window in downtown Seattle and teaching a UW business writing class. Knight’s travels read like something akin to a Conde Nast Traveler’s brochure. His comments about numerous family members and friends are warm and entertaining. The reader will find this book fascinating, especially if you are a sports fanatic. The book is at times historical, humorous and entertaining and will be an enjoyable read.
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