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What: “Echoes of Notre Dame Football: Great and Memorable Moments of the Fighting Irish�

Author: Joe Garner

Publisher: Sourcebooks

Price: $49.95

Talk about waking the echoes. This 176-page coffee table book certainly does that. And it triggers the memories. It not only is chock-full of great photos and stories of memorable Notre Dame football moments, it also contains two CDs narrated by noted Irish fan Regis Philbin.

The CDs, attached inside the front cover, contain calls from game broadcasts, featuring the likes of Notre Dame announcers Joe Boland, Jim Gibbons and Tony Roberts, plus TV announcers such as Keith Jackson.

Joe Garner of Encino, a graduate of Western Illinois, spent more than a year putting together this multimedia book, his fourth. His others, “We Interrupt This Broadcast,� featuring major news events, and sports books “And the Crowd Goes Wild� and “And the Fans Roared,� all made the New York Times best-seller list.

Garner, a former radio network executive who seems to have found his niche, has come up with another winner that any college football fan will enjoy. But it helps to be a Notre Dame fan.

There’s a section devoted to the Notre Dame-USC rivalry, but you won’t find any pictures of Anthony Davis. Or Rod Sherman.

There are mentions in the text about the 1964 game in which Sherman caught the winning touchdown pass from Craig Fertig and also the Davis games of 1972 (six touchdowns) and ’74 (55-24), but that’s about it.