ESPN: One Giant Leap for Fankind won the GRAND PRIZE at the 2022 New England Book Festival! It gives you the opportunity to walk through sports history with the man who changed it. Order Bill’s memoir today.

Independent Author of the Year, Bill Rasmussen, also won awards in 2023 in the Southern California Book Festival, the Los Angeles Book Festival, the Beach Book Festival, the San Francisco Book Festival, New York Book Festival and the Paris Book Festival!

So many stories that lead up to the launch of ESPN and many more after it reached the stars. You will enjoy learning something new about sports. You will learn something new about history. You will learn something new about technology. For the sports enthusiast, the Champions are listed for each decade.

A color insert gives the reader a look into Bill’s past, present and future, along with some of the people he admires an appreciates. See what makes him smile and what touches his heart.

Sports Junkies Rejoice! - The Birth of ESPN is the fast paced, first person story of that incredible year of birth. You’ll be fascinated by this behind the scenes look at the people, the plans, the emotions and events that led to the launch of the world’s first around-the-clock all-sports network.

If you pride yourself on knowing everything there is to know about ESPN, you’ll need to own this book to cover all the bases. Do you know about the $9,000 credit card advance, the first advertiser on ESPN, or the cost of ESPN’s first transponder? Or how about - why Bristol? All that and more about the early days of the E.S.P. Network ... the very early days in Sports Junkies Rejoice! - The Birth of ESPN!

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