My Maggie - Rilegato

Veteran Chicago sports anchor. Rich King began his broadcast career with WGN-TV and Radio in 1969.Rich joined the WGN-TV News Department as sports reporter/anchor in August 1991 and was named Illinois “Sportscaster of the Year” in 1991. He has also won AP and UPI awards for his sportscasting. He was also awarded an Emmy for his Chicago Bulls coverage in 1996. King spends his time serving on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Lighthouse for the Blind and on the Communications committee of the American Cancer Society.

My Maggie is a rare and real love story. Rich and Maggie King were two people who never gave up on each other—a testiment to a love few have the will to attain.She was his childhood sweetheart and wife of thirty-two years. Diagnosed with hearing loss at the age of four, she wore cumbersome hearing aids and felt the humiliation of being “different.” Slowly, an insidious disease robbed her of vision. She fought three different cancers, changed careers in the middle of her life and fought to realize her dreams. Yet, underneath these great challenges, there was an incredible love shared by two people. It was cemented by adversity and reached a near perfect spiritual connection. They lived a classic old-fashioned love story. King shares one of the most powerful, complex and memorable love stories ever written. It is an American story of great heroism, courage and devotion. Maggie was a woman who understood how to lead a happy life and then led it, in spite of the challenges placed in front of her. My Maggie is great drama, great passion, and great fun. It is a book written with a love so immense it almost defies description.