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arty Glickman '39 has Glickman and , the only Race to Glory had a heckuva life. Jewish members of the track and field Growing up in Brook­ team, were replaced by M lyn, he was the swift­ and . d est kid in his neigh­ At the team meeting when the change borhood. His fleet feet led him to be­ was announced, both Owens, who had Life .1tory i1 one for come a record-setting sprinter and star already won three gold medals, and football player in high school and later at Glickman spoke up in protest, without the record 6ook.1 . success. The American team -a favorite During his sophomore year at SU, before with the lineup of Stoller, Glickman qualified for the 1936 Berlin Glickman, , and Frank Olympics, but was denied the opportu­ Wykoff-nonetheless won with its new nity to compete when he and a teammate lineup and set a world record. It was were inexplicably pulled from the 400- Glickman's only event. meter relay squad. In the book, Glickman recalls when he Hurt but nevertheless undaunted, earlier marched into the stadium for the Glickman parlayed his love of athletics opening ceremonies: "We were all curi­ into an eventful 55- ous what looked like. As we year career as a sports passed in front of him ... we looked up at broadcaster, which cul­ the box w here he was flanked by Goring minated in his en­ and Goebbels and Hess and Himmler shrinement into the and the rest of the Nazi hierarchy. And Naismith Basketball you could hear the comment run through Hall of Fame, the our crowd .. .'Hey, he looks like Charlie American Sportscast­ Chaplin.' And indeed he did." ers Association Hall In 1937, Glickman's junior year at SU, of Fame, and the the owner of a Syracuse haberdashery New York Sports approached Glickman with the offer to Hall of Fame. An icon do a weekly 15-minute sports show on in the New York local radio. It was Glickman's first sports community as broadcast job and paid $] 5 per show. the longtime voice of From that modest start, Glickman went the Knicks, Giants, on to broadcast more than 1,000 football and Jets, Glickman is games, 3,000 basketball games, 2,100 now retired from track meets, and 15,000 harness races. broadcasting, but still He also did four marble-shooting cham­ lectures frequently at pionships, as well as rodeos, roller-skat­ Fordham University. ing races, ice shows, swimming and ski In The FaJteJt Ki() on meets, tennis and golf matches, volley­ the Block, written with ball games, and countless other events. veteran sportswriter Glickman also offers his thoughts on Stan Isaacs, Glick­ several well-known sports personalities, man recalls his years including basketball greats Bill Bradley, The Fastest Kid on the Block: in and Syracuse, the contro­ Bill Russell, and Wilt Chamberlain; The Marty Glickman Story versy of the so-called "Nazi Olympics," longtime Boston Celtics executive Red By Marty GLickman '59 with Stan IJaacJ his sportscasting endeavors, and his Auerbach; former 210 pp. SyracUJe UniverJity PruJ. $24.95 friendships with famous sports fi gures head coach ; and fellow like his teammate, Olympic gold medal­ sportscasters Red Barber, Mel Allen, ist Jesse Owens. and Phil Rizzuto. Nor does colorful col­ Early in the book and at several other lege basketball analyst points, Glickman talks about his experi­ escape Glickman's attention: "If he is ences with prejudice a nd, particularly, going to broadcast a game, I am pre­ anti-Semitism. The most notable inci­ pared to tune out the sound. He talks all dent occurred at the Oly mpics. G lick­ the time. He tries to be funny at the man qualified as one of the American expense of the event. H e self-aggran­ team's four sprinters in the 400-meter dizes to a fare-thee-well. And 1 don't like relay. As a result of team politics and John Tesh, either." what many suspected was anti-Semitism, - KEVIN MORRO IV

6 Published by SURFACE, 1997 SYRACUSE UNIVERS ITY MAGAZ IN E 1 Syracuse University Magazine, Vol. 13, Iss. 3 [1997], Art. 4

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