1. Sam Balter attended Lincoln High School, and then Roosevelt High School, both in Los Angeles.
11 Facts About Sam Balter
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Sam Balter played for an amateur basketball team sponsored by Universal Pictures.
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At the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Balter was part of the American basketball team which won the gold medal.
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Sam Balter played in two matches, but not the final match in which the US team won the gold medal.
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Sam Balter was one of a number of Jewish athletes who won medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics during the Nazi regime.
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Sam Balter later turned his celebrity into a career as a Los Angeles sportscaster, announcing at radio station KLAC from 1946 to 1962, and starting his TV career on a local station in 1950.
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Sam Balter was known as the "voice of UCLA football and basketball" and wrote sports columns for the Los Angeles Herald-Express.
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Sam Balter was the broadcast announcer for the Los Angeles Stars of the American Basketball Association before the ABA-NBA merger.
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Sam Balter appeared in a number of movies and television shows, always portraying a radio announcer or sportscaster.
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Sam Balter is a member of the Amateur Athletic Union Hall of Fame, the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, the Southern California Broadcasters Hall of Fame, the Southern California Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, and the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.
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Sam Balter died as a result of complications from abdominal surgery on August 8,1998, at the age of 88.