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What: “And the Crowd Goes Wild”

Author: Joe Garner; Publisher: Sourcebooks ($49.95)

If you had a collection of the greatest calls by sportscasters on radio and television during the 20th century, would you prefer them in print form or on CDs? How about both?

Los Angeles author Joe Garner has put together a 180-page coffee-table book chronicling 47 of the greatest moments in sports. Attached to the inside cover are two CDs with the live calls.

There is a well-written foreword by Hank Aaron and an an equally good afterword by Wayne Gretzky. Between are 47 chapters, each detailing a memorable moment with text and photos.

Ideally, you can read about a moment while listening to the call.

For Garner, who did a similar book on news events, “We Interrupt This Broadcast,” getting the rights to the calls from leagues, networks and the sportscasters themselves or their estates, was a yearlong task. So was getting permission to use the photos.

Garner got NBC’s Bob Costas to do the narration that sets up each call. Serving as a writer and consultant was Todd Donoho.

The book and the CDs begin with Babe Ruth’s “called shot” during the 1932 World Series between the New York Yankees and Chicago Cubs and conclude with the U.S. women winning the World Cup in July.

Track 6 on Disc 1 is Russ Hodges’ famous “The Giants win the pennant!” Track 6 on Disc 2 is Al Michaels’ “Do you believe in miracles?” Kirk Gibson’s home run is Track 15 on Disc 2, but the call is not Vin Scully’s “She is gone” on NBC but rather Jack Buck’s “I don’t believe what I just saw” on CBS radio.

Scully declines to participate in the marketing of any of his calls. Even without him, the result is a great collector’s item.