The Big Time

“The Big Time crackles…and induces longing for a time when sporting events were less scripted, scrutinized and corporatized.”
–New York Times
“Impressive in scope and vividly told, this is a winner.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Michael MacCambridge has produced a riveting book you didn’t know needed to be written until you turn the first page–at which point you realize it’s indispensable history. THE BIG TIME is part cultural biography and part stroll down charming lanes of nostalgia, revisiting indelible characters at their peak powers, from Chrissie Evert to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. But mainly it’s an engrossing appraisal of an American decade that changed, well, everything.”–Sally Jenkins, author of The Right Call
“Michael MacCambridge is one of America’s finest chroniclers and when he told me he was turning his eye to the 1970s, the decade of my childhood, I couldn’t have been more thrilled. He delivers exactly what I hoped he would, a book brimming with nostalgia and fun, filled with all the marvelous names that shaped my life as a sports fan as well as shaping sports as we now know them.”–Joe Posnanski, bestselling author of The Baseball 100
“Michael MacCambridge’s THE BIG TIME is a meticulously researched, beautifully written and wonderfully entertaining walk down memory lane. The ‘70s were such a fascinating decade in sports and culture, and this book brings all the characters and moments to life in riveting detail. We know that time travel doesn’t exist, but this book sure comes close.”–Christine Brennan, USA Today sports columnist and author of the best-selling Inside Edge
“If you remember how great sports were in those days, THE BIG TIME will remind you, and if you doubt how great, this book will show you.”–Roy Blount, Jr., author, About Three Bricks Shy of a Load

Michael MacCambridge is an author, journalist and TV commentator, whose books have included the acclaimed America’s Game: The Epic Story of How Pro Football Captured A Nation and Chuck Noll: His Life’s Work. For eight years a columnist and critic at the Austin American-Statesman, MacCambridge was later a contributor to A New Literary History of America, and his work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, and GQ. The father of two children, Miles and Ella, he lives in Austin.

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