Unthinkable
12-26-02, 08:17 PM
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/inside_game/magazine/life_of_reilly/
Vision of Happiness
Posted: Tuesday December 24, 2002 3:16 PM
For years "Miriam from Forest Hills" has been one of the great hockey callers in New York sports-talk radio. "Ya gotta beat that goaltender top shelf!" she'd insist. "Why don't these guys know that?"
She lives for her New York Islanders, having missed only two of their radio broadcasts in the team's 30-year history. In her tiny apartment in the Forest Hills section of Queens, N.Y., score books and audiotapes of Islanders games are stacked floor to ceiling, so many that she has only half of her single bed to sleep in.
Yet she had never attended an Islanders game.
When the team's vice president of communications, Chris Botta, found that out not long ago, he vowed to get her to a game and offered up two guest passes, hers for the taking. There was one detail.
Miriam is blind -- has been since birth.
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Vision of Happiness
Posted: Tuesday December 24, 2002 3:16 PM
For years "Miriam from Forest Hills" has been one of the great hockey callers in New York sports-talk radio. "Ya gotta beat that goaltender top shelf!" she'd insist. "Why don't these guys know that?"
She lives for her New York Islanders, having missed only two of their radio broadcasts in the team's 30-year history. In her tiny apartment in the Forest Hills section of Queens, N.Y., score books and audiotapes of Islanders games are stacked floor to ceiling, so many that she has only half of her single bed to sleep in.
Yet she had never attended an Islanders game.
When the team's vice president of communications, Chris Botta, found that out not long ago, he vowed to get her to a game and offered up two guest passes, hers for the taking. There was one detail.
Miriam is blind -- has been since birth.
.
.
.