... to Gordon McLendon, one of the pioneers of Dallas radio, fake ―live‖ play -by- play broadcasts of the Spurs‘ games; he sat in a studio, read batter -by- batter results off a wire ticker and reported ... tumbling out of the musty vaults of my memory, as clear as the day they went in. I remember the game the Cowboys lost to the Steelers in ‘62, because an offensive lineman was found guilty of holding ... gait of a country-music star. The imaginary games I played in my backyard could never begin without a re-enactment of this ritual. After the opening kickoff came the game, three hours of exultation...