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Cope was for more than 30 years an official Pittsburgh legend, first apparing on radio station WTAE as a sports broadcaster, then television commentary for station WTAE-TV. He is also the inventor of the Terrible Towel, the Steelers' famed good-luck symbol.

Double Yoi! is Myron Cope's autobiography, but like his announcing style, it's anything but conventional. Born Myron Sydney Kopelman, he tells about the unusual way he got started in sports writing, his colorful career as a member of the Sports Illustrated staff, and how he eventually evolved into a radio-television performer. Few know that Pittsburgh's favortie broadcaster was once a boxer, a salesman, and an integral figure in the presidential campaign of John Kennedy. In Double Yoi!, Cope also offers his personal sketches of athletes and coaches with whom he's come in contact, such as Cassius Clay, Chuck Noll, and Terry Bradshaw. The creator of the Steelers' trademark Terrible Towel also pokes plenty of left jabs at himself.