Eli zaret biography

Eli Zaret is an American sports broadcaster and journalist based in Detroit, Michigan.
Sportscaster Eli Zaret has been familiar to radio listeners as a major voice in Detroit sports for better than thirty years.
Eli Zaret.

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Titles by Eli Zaret

Published Apr 2007

From being the only 30-game winner in more than 70 years to having the Gambino crime family order a hit for your murder, Denny McLain has surely seen it all: RICO charges from the U.S. government to touring the country as a popular musician playing on national TV and the Las Vegas strip before becoming a close jail-house friend to John Gotti Jr. <I>I Told You I Wasn’t Perfect</I> allows the former All-Star pitcher to share his cautionary tale with generations of baseball. In 1968, McLain set the baseball world on fire by being the first pitcher to win at least 30 games since Dizzy Dean 34 years earlier. But just two years later he was banned from the game for half a season, traded away to the laughing-stock Washington Senators where he entered into a never-ending battle with baseball icon Ted Williams. By 1972, he was a retired star, hustling games of golf. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s he was in and out of prison for charges including racketeering, loan-sharking, extortion, cocaine possession, and fraud before being

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Zaret, Eli 1950–

PERSONAL:

Born March 17, 1950. Education: Graduated from University of Michigan.

ADDRESSES:

Home— Detroit, MI. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Broadcaster and author, c. 1974—. Broadcaster and disc jockey in Detroit, MI, at WABX-FM, 1974-75, WJZZ-FM, 1975-78, and WRIF-FM, beginning 1978; broadcaster of syndicated show "Eli Zaret on Sports," ABC-FM, beginning 1979; reporter, Lake Placid Winter Olympics, 1980; sports anchorman, WDIV-TV, Detroit, beginning 1980; lead sports anchor, WABC-TV, New York, NY, 1986-88; sports director, and cohost of "The Eli & Denny Show" (with Denny McLain), beginning 1988; creator and host, "The LockerRoom," 1997-2004; reporter for Detroit Pistons broadcasts, WDIV-TV, Detroit, 2005—.

WRITINGS:

'84: The Last of the Great Tigers—Untold Stories from an Amazing Season, introduction by Ernie Harwell, foreword by Elmore Leonard, Crofton Creek Press (South Boardman, MI), 2003.

Blue Collar Blueprint: How the Pistons Constructed Their Championship Formula, Malloy (Ann Arbor, MI), 2004.

(With Denny McLain)I Told Yo