Terry Boers has never been shy to voice his opinion. A charmed storyteller has seen just about all of it, and now has the platform to paint the picture as only he can.

In his autobiography, The Score Of A Lifetime, Boers chronicles his life and times starting out as a normal, anonymous man about the quiet town of Steger, Illinois, and working his way into one of the iconic voices in Chicago sports history. His work with the Chicago Sun Times and later as the unmistakable voice of the sports show Boers & Bernstein became as prominent as any medium in Chicago sports takes. The colorful and unedited stories Boers tells in the book move right along with the honest approach that has made him famous.

Each of the 20 chapters offer a vivid look into Boers’ life, opening the curtain on his childhood growing up in Steger with parents who told it and sold it like it was. His tiny house on Sangamon Street sets the scene for later discussions about being the only child, and later a child of the streets in his Dodge Charger that got him into more than a little trouble.

His descriptions of influences, breaks and trials to get into the sportswriting business make the glamorless life of entry-level writing sound appealing. His big break, getting the call to work for an upstart idea called The Score in 1992 laid the foundation of how one of Chicago’s most vocal sports platforms got its start.

Stories about working with Chicago legends like Mike Ditka and the 1985 Bears, Michael Jordan and the circus that was the Chicago Bulls, the dozens upon dozens of athletes and celebrities in town, as well as working with some of the personalities that have made The Score the No.1 sports station in Chicago. And throughout the book, astute readers will catch several small jabs he takes at a few adversaries, other radio hosts, sports personalities and even a couple listeners that made life less than ordinary.

Boers also comes clean on his relationship, or lack thereof, with Mike Murphy, which has socially become one of the most discussed chapters in the book since the book was released in October. It’s Chapter 10 for those who want to skip ahead.

He also discusses a fair amount of the successful formula to how the Boers & Bernstein Show came to be and what made it work for nearly two decades. It’s run was the longest-running sports talk show on radio before Boers retired in January of 2017.

Boers fight with cancer curtails the comedy of much of the rest of the book, shedding light on the human element, and offering reason to his abrupt absence from the WSCR 670 airwaves in 2016.

The book itself is a very easy and fun read. The chapters are short and full of comedy and brutal honesty. If people have heard Boers speak on the radio, you can almost hear him telling the stories page by page, with his cadences and tonalities that bring the reader to want to keep moving through the memoirs.

From Boers’ prologue:

“I’ve always maintained that I’m one of the least interesting people in the world to interview on just about any subject. And I say that with absolutely no hint of false modesty.

“I‘ve never had a session with a therapist, never been ordered to anger management, never needed couples counseling, or sought anything in the way of material aid, although I’ve run across plenty of [toys] in my time. So why should you keep reading? Because I believe the journey has been pretty damn interesting. I hope you might agree.”

The Score Of A Lifetime is published by Triumph Books.