Martin Irving Glickman was an American radio announcer who was famous for his broadcasts of the New York Knicks basketball games and the football games of the New York Giants and the New York Jets.
29 Facts About Marty Glickman
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Marty Glickman was a noted track and field athlete and football star at Syracuse University.
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Marty Glickman was a member of the US team at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany.
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Marty Glickman was born in the Bronx, New York City, to a Romanian Jewish family.
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Marty Glickman was a track star and football standout at James Madison High School in Brooklyn and at Syracuse University.
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Marty Glickman was an 18-year-old sprinter who qualified for the US team in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany.
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Marty Glickman traveled to Germany and spent two weeks practicing as part of the 400-meter relay team.
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Marty Glickman himself was convinced that their removal was done primarily to avoid embarrassing Adolf Hitler, the chancellor of Germany, and the National Socialist regime he led.
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For having been pulled from the relay, Marty Glickman blamed Brundage and track coach Dean Cromwell.
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Marty Glickman thought Brundage was an anti-Semite and did too much to please Hitler.
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Marty Glickman had brief careers in professional football and basketball.
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Marty Glickman joined the radio station WHN in New York City, and by 1943 he was its sports director.
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Marty Glickman was an officer in the 4th Marine Air Wing from 1943 until the end of the war in 1945.
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Marty Glickman became a distinguished sportscaster, beginning as the voice man for the sports newsreels distributed by Paramount News, between 1948 and 1957 when Paramount News' newsreel production ended.
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Marty Glickman covered all local, national and global sports during that era in every genre.
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Marty Glickman helped the careers of the acclaimed sportscasters Spencer Ross and Johnny Most.
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In 1991, Marty Glickman himself became a member of the Curt Gowdy wing of the Basketball Hall of Fame; he was the second person selected for the announcers' award, following Gowdy himself in 1990.
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Marty Glickman joined the radio station WHN in 1939 and was its sports director by 1943.
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Marty Glickman was the first announcer for the New York Nets before the ABA-NBA merger, when they played in their first home, the Island Garden in Nassau County.
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Marty Glickman was the voice of the Yonkers Raceway for 12 years and the New York Jets for 11 years.
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Marty Glickman did pre- and post-game shows for the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees for 22 years.
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Marty Glickman was often heard on WPIX-11's telecasts of local college basketball during the winter and called the play-by-play of their broadcasts of the High School Football Game Of The Week, with former NY Yankee Elston Howard providing the color commentary.
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Marty Glickman became the first sports director for Home Box Office in 1972.
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Marty Glickman returned to college football in 1985, calling Ivy League football games for PBS.
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In 1988, Marty Glickman returned to television on NBC as a play-by-play replacement on its NFL telecasts while protege Marv Albert was in Seoul covering the Olympics.
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Marty Glickman retired from broadcasting in December 1992, aged 74.
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In 1996, his autobiography, The Fastest Kid on the Block: The Marty Glickman Story, was published; it was co-written by sportswriter Stan Isaacs.
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Marty Glickman was portrayed by Jeremy Ferdman in the 2016 biopic Race, about African American Olympic athlete Jesse Owens.
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Marty Glickman underwent heart bypass surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, New York, on December 14,2000, and died of complications on January 3,2001.