Sportsrmylife
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Posted the link below
A must-see documentary...."976-1313: How Sports Phone Launched Careers and Broke New Ground"
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Sportsrmylife
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Sportsrmylife
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I thought a doc was attached
More just a book. But one ill get and enjoy
More just a book. But one ill get and enjoy
louisvillekid
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I dont even remember this.
What's the connection with actors and/or musicians?
I bet if i check YT someone has made some sort of doc about it, or done a quasi type info vid about it.
What's the connection with actors and/or musicians?
I bet if i check YT someone has made some sort of doc about it, or done a quasi type info vid about it.
Neveragain
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It’s a new book released this month available on Amazon in hard cover for approx $25 HC and PB $22
Title is “How the sports phone launched careers and broke new ground.”
496 pages.
Credits: by Scott Orgera (Author), Howie Karpin (Author), & 2 more
Storytelling from phone sports coverage and sports culture perspectives.
Good brief review on Amazon.
Good overview of the sports phone also on Wikipedia.
Obviously cable TV (sports channels) and Internet killed the service.
Finally shut down operations in year 2000.
Title is “How the sports phone launched careers and broke new ground.”
496 pages.
Credits: by Scott Orgera (Author), Howie Karpin (Author), & 2 more
Storytelling from phone sports coverage and sports culture perspectives.
Good brief review on Amazon.
Good overview of the sports phone also on Wikipedia.
Obviously cable TV (sports channels) and Internet killed the service.
Finally shut down operations in year 2000.
Sportsrmylife
EOG Master
I'm getting it!
Worked at SportsPhone in Chicago during my college years at Northwestern.
I was a weekend guy who loved working Saturday nights during the college football and basketball seasons.
I had an interest in horse racing when the company (Phone Programs, Inc.) expanded their offerings to include race results.
I could rattle through those win, place and show payouts as fast as the guy featured in those old FedEx commercials.
Had a chance to meet Dave Feldman, Phil Georgeff, John Brokopp, Mike Paradise, Gil Levine, Jeff Gillespie and other big names in the Chicago horse racing industry.
Fun times.
My favorite SportsPhone alum was the late Les Grobstein (aka "The Grobber").
976-1313, a number I'll never forget.
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Ray Donovan
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What about Steve Turner & his phones for Linez & scores, ran well
Steve Turner, the name doesn't ring a bell.
Mickey Charles and Jim Feist were big names in the score phone industry.
Charles was the main competitor to Phone Programs Inc. (Sports Phone) back in the 1970s and '80s.
Charles eventually founded The Sports Network, an international sports wire which grew in stature through the decades before being sold to STATS in 2015.
Jim Feist was a pioneer in Nevada.
He got in early on the pay-per-call business when he purchased 20 of the 25 original 900-number licenses in 1982 or thereabouts.
Feist also operated a free score phone in Nevada.
I still remember the number: (702) 368-2000.
Feist was one of the biggest names in the sports advisory business.
By my math, Feist is approaching 80 years old.
Where does the time go?
The Feist group hustled many unsuspecting sports handicappers from a boiler room in Las Vegas.
The tout business is dirty.
It's no surprise that Feist rhymes with heist.
The tout business is dirty.
It's no surprise that Feist rhymes with heist.
mr merlin
EOG Master
I still miss the meatman, he was a legit tout, what you saw was what you got.
boston massacre
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kane
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Yeah, I saw an asshole, and I got an asshole
mr merlin
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Sorta, he was a loudmouth braggart, but he was amusing and he was OUR loudmouthed braggart.
winkyduck
TYVM Morgan William!!!
Feist also liked "dating his niece" - we all know what that term means.
The adage of: Half your age plus 9.................did not apply to him. For him it was more like: Half your age MINUS 9
I would guess Jim Feist is nearing his 80th birthday.
Using Wink's creative formula, my math puts Feist's "niece" at 31.
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winkyduck
TYVM Morgan William!!!
That might be borderline too old for him. I am only semi-joking here.
When you're half-joking, it means you're half-serious.
I don't need ComptrBob's mathematical mind for that equation.