 The book explored one season of the New York Knicks along with players who were legends in neighborhoods of New York but who never played professionally.He is perhaps best remembered for writing "The Kid" in 1978, a biography of then eighteen-year-old Triple Crown winning jockey Steve Cauthen.While on the pregame telecasts for the NFL in the early 1980s, Axthelm was NBC's answer to CBS' Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder on "The NFL Today," providing betting angles to the games.