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From Barnes & NobleAl Michaels' first television job was choosing women to appear on The Dating Game, but he really hit his stride when he took his first TV sports job in 1964. In the half century since, he has been the voice and often the face of major sports events; from Monday Night Football and the World Series, the Olympics, the NBA, and college football and basketball. You Can't Make This Up bubbles with fifty years of an insider's memories about the games and occupation he loves. A slam-dunk, grand-slam bestseller to be. Publishers Weekly02/16/2015 In this fairly straightforward autobiography, Michaels, with the help of Sports Illustrated writer and author Wertheim (Strokes of Genius), chronicles how his early love of sports growing up in Brooklyn and Southern California inspired him to want to become a broadcaster at an early age.