{"product_id":"finished-business-ray-didinger-9781439920602","title":"Finished Business: My Fifty Years of Headlines, Heroes, and Heartaches","description":"\u003cp\u003eRay Didinger opens his lively memoir \u003ci\u003eFinished Business\u003c\/i\u003e with the Philadelphia Eagles' upset win in Super Bowl LII. When the Eagles finally hoist the Lombardi Trophy, Didinger does his best to straddle the emotions of a working reporter and a long-suffering Philly fan. His ability to do that is why he has built up such a loyal following.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDidinger began following the Eagles as a kid, hanging out in his grandfather's bar in Southwest Philadelphia. He spent his summers at the team's training camp in Hershey. It was there he met his idol, flanker Tommy McDonald. He would later write a play, \u003ci\u003eTommy and Me, \u003c\/i\u003e about their friendship and his efforts to see McDonald enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDidinger has been covering the Eagles as a newspaper columnist or TV analyst since 1970. Over the years, he wrote sports for the \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Bulletin\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e. He later produced Emmy Award-winning documentaries for NFL Films before transitioning to sports talk radio and TV analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn five decades, across multiple media platforms, he has interviewed everyone from Hank Aaron, Wayne Gretzky, Muhammad Ali, Julius Erving, Jack Nicklaus, to Mike Schmidt, as well as writing film scripts for Hollywood stars such as Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin. He went to the White House with the U.S. Olympic team and even explored the bizarre world of professional wrestling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis stories, told in his familiar, breezy style, capture his enthusiasm for sports and his affection for the fans who still mourn the pennant that eluded the Phillies in 1964. Didinger has become synonymous with Philadelphia sports, and his memoir is as passionate as an autumn Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ray Didinger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1439920605\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439920602\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.50d","brand":"Ray Didinger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44055194435839,"sku":"9781439920602","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_63fc9673-990a-4818-bb5a-e2f7b2ff0abe.jpg?v=1685034328","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/finished-business-ray-didinger-9781439920602","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}