Marty Glickman
Marty Glickman | |
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Born | Martin Irving Glickman August 14, 1917 New York City, U.S. |
Died | January 3, 2001 New York City, U.S. | (aged 83)
Alma mater | Syracuse University |
Occupation | Radio sportscaster |
Known for | 1936 Berlin Olympics |
Spouse | Marjorie Glickman[1] |
Children | 4 [1] |
Martin Irving Glickman[1] (August 14, 1917 – January 3, 2001) 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.
Glickman was a noted
Early life and education
Glickman was born in
He was a
Track career and the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Glickman was an 18-year-old
No written sources have ever emerged that conclusively account for the last-minute decision to remove Glickman and Stoller from the relay event. Glickman himself was convinced that their removal was done primarily to avoid embarrassing Adolf Hitler, the chancellor of Germany, and the National Socialist (Nazi) regime he led. Under Hitler's leadership, Germany had enacted severe anti-Jewish race laws, and the profound prejudice of the National Socialist regime against Jews was obvious by 1936. With the two Jewish sprinters, an American team's victory in the relay would have been awkward for the German hosts to the games in Berlin, their capital city. The head of the 1936 US Olympic Team, Avery Brundage, dismissed these allegations as "absurd" in a written report shortly after the games, but David Large wrote more than seventy years later that "While the removal of Glickman and Stoller never bothered Brundage, it haunted the American Olympic establishment for decades after."[4] In 1998, the then-president of the U.S. Olympic Committee, William J. Hybl, honored Glickman and the memory of Sam Stoller, who had died in 1985, by presenting Glickman with a plaque "in lieu of the gold medals they didn't win" in Berlin.[6] Hybl noted that although there was no written proof that their removal was an appeasement of the German regime's anti-Semitism, it was clearly the case. "I was a prosecutor," Hybl said. "I'm used to looking at evidence. The evidence was there."[7]
For having been pulled from the relay, Glickman blamed Brundage and track coach Dean Cromwell.[3] According to Glickman, Cromwell favored Draper and Wykoff over Glickman and Stoller for two reasons, the coach's anti-Semitism and his favoring Wykoff and Draper because they ran for Cromwell at USC. Glickman thought Brundage was an anti-Semite and did too much to please Hitler.[3]
As a testament to Glickman's ability as a sprinter in 1963 (at age 46) he lined up and outran all New York Giants running backs in a race.[citation needed]
Early radio career and military service
Glickman graduated from Syracuse University in 1939. In addition to his prominence in track and field, he was a star running back for the varsity football team. He had brief careers in professional football and basketball. He joined the radio station WHN in New York City, and by 1943 he was its sports director.
Following the American entry into World War II in 1941, Glickman joined the
Sportscasting
Glickman became a distinguished
After Paramount News, he became best known as the voice of the
Glickman was a longtime mentor of broadcasters. His most famous protégé,
Glickman joined the radio station
He was also the voice of the
Glickman became the first sports director for Home Box Office in 1972.[12]
In addition, in the 1980s, Glickman also broadcast University of Connecticut football and basketball games for the Connecticut Radio Network. Glickman returned to college football in 1985, calling Ivy League football games for PBS.
In addition to this, Glickman covered track meets, wrestling matches from
Autobiography and documentary film
In 1996, his autobiography, The Fastest Kid on the Block: The Marty Glickman Story, was published; it was co-written by sportswriter Stan Isaacs.[3]
On August 26, 2013, the documentary film Glickman by James L. Freedman was broadcast on HBO. Martin Scorsese was one of the film's executive producers.[13] The film received positive reviews[14][15][16][17] and was released on DVD in 2014.[18]
Glickman was portrayed by
Death
Glickman underwent
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e Wallace, William (January 4, 2001). "Marty Glickman, Announcer And Blocked Olympian, 83". New York Times.
- ISBN 0-313-29911-0.
- ^ ISBN 978-0815605744.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-393-05884-0.
- ^ Greenspan, Bud (August 9, 1981). "Why Jesse Owens Won 4 Gold Medals". The New York Times.
Wykoff, who died in 1980, said: 'We hadn't worked with Jesse or Ralph at all. I think that if Glickman and Stoller had run, we would have had just as fast a time, if not faster.'
Greenspan wrote and directed a television documentary series The Olympiad (22 hours, 1976). - ^ "Mistake of 1936 Olympic Games Not Forgotten". The Los Angeles Times. March 29, 1998. Associated Press report.
- ^ Eskenazi, Gerald (March 30, 1998). "OLYMPICS; Glickman, Shut Out of 1936 Games, Is Honored at Last". The New York Times.
- ^ Isaacs, Stan (2001). "The Passing of a Giant". Archived from the original on 2013-09-23.
- ^ Sandomir, Richard (January 7, 2001). "MARTY GLICKMAN: 1917–2001 – The Snub, the Voice, the Heart; A Precise, Animated Diction That Captivated the Listener". New York Times.
- ^ Each year there are two Gowdy awards. One is for "electronic" media, and has been given primarily to radio and television sportscasters. Gowdy and Glickman received their awards to honor their long careers as sports announcers. The second is for "print" media. See "Curt Gowdy Media Award Winners". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2010-12-08. Retrieved 2014-10-19.
- ^ "Don Paul: Marty Glickman and me". 28 September 2017.
- ^ "Glickman, Marty - 1993 Hall of Fame Inductee".
- IMDb
- ^ Linden, Sheri (August 15, 2013). "Review: 'Glickman' an affectionate portrait of Marty Glickman". The Los Angeles Times.
- ^ Harvey, Dennis (February 20, 2012). "Review: 'Glickman'". Variety.
Pic's adherence to chronological order means that the most dramatic material (re: the Olympics) is over with fairly quickly. And the packaging, while pro, makes scant effort at creating narrative momentum or a distinctive texture; pacing is brisk but unvaried. Still, the wealth of events and personalities noted here make "Glickman" a sporting history buff's delight.
- ^ Best, Neil (August 26, 2013). "Who's Marty Glickman? New HBO documentary will tell you". Newsday.
Freedman does so in an elegant 75-minute account during which he intentionally followed the Glickman mantra of succinctness, paring the narration to its essential parts.
- ^ Shattuck, Kathryn (August 29, 2013). "What's on Thursday". The New York Times.
- OCLC 876188247.
- ^ Holden, Stephen (18 February 2016). "Race Chronicles Jesse Owens's Rise to Olympic Glory". The New York Times. Retrieved 2016-09-26.
Further reading
- OCLC 40061355.