Longtime play-by-play announcer Kenny Albert is scheduled to release an autobiography later this year, and the inclusion of Don La Greca in the book was a potential hot-button issue.
Albert has long been the radio play-by-play voice of the New York Rangers. La Greca has served as the fill-in announcer when Albert has been tasked with national television and radio assignments and was worried he wouldn’t be included.
During The Michael Kay Show Friday, Kay allowed Peter Rosenberg to share a recent conversation with the play-by-play announcer that would make La Greca happy.
“We’re sitting with Kenny Albert, and having a conversation,” Rosenberg began. “Michael insists that Don will not be in Kenny’s upcoming biography. And Don you said you’d be very hurt or disappointed to not be acknowledged?”
“He said and I quote ‘Don’s all over the book’. And he even said to me ‘Michael, you’re mentioned once’. We have the same birthday, and we try to beat each other at midnight to text happy birthday. So he tells that story. But he said ‘Don’s all over the book’.”
“I’m honored. I just thought that I would get — I was confident that I would get in the acknowledgments. I didn’t think I would get in the book.”
Kay then shared an anecdote that happened recently that proves Albert is one of the finest people working in the industry.
“Kenny showed me something yesterday that showed me why he’s a star. He was — due to circumstances beyond his control — doing play-by-play from the monitor in the studio upstairs,” Kay explained. “He bought two large pizzas and a bag of something for everyone involved. I asked him if he sent down a producer to pick it up, and he said ‘No, I went down and picked it up’. He doesn’t have to do that.”
“A Mic For All Seasons”, the autobiography from Albert, is scheduled to release on Tuesday, October 10th.
