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- Birth nameMartin Irving Glickman
- Glickman, a pioneering sports broadcaster in the New York City market, started in radio there in 1939. He was eventually to become New York's foremost sports announcer, covering basketball, wrestling, harness racing and American-style football, among other sports major or esoteric. He is less remembered by the public as an 18-year-old member of the U.S. Olympic track and field squad who was yanked from competing in the 1936 Games in Berlin, for no other reason than that he was a Jew. That affront left him in fury for the rest of his life.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bill Takacs <kinephile@aol.com>
- Marty Glickman is 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 Football Team and the New York Jets. He was the most influential sports announcer of his time.
Glickman was a noted track and field athlete and football star at Syracuse University. He was a member of the U.S. team at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany. The unexplained, last-minute decision to remove Glickman and Sam Stoller from the 400-meter relay the 1936 Olympics, where they were replaced by Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe, who easily won the gold medals. Glickman would later talk and write extensively about the controversial decision. James L. Freedman has produced a documentary film, Glickman (2013), that was broadcast nationally in the United States on HBO in 2013.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bazza the Beast
- SpouseMarjorie Dorman(December 25, 1940 - January 3, 2001) (his death, 4 children)
- Member of the New York Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
- Longtime radio broadcaster for several New York sports teams.
- Member of the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame (1993).
- Recipient of the Curt Gowdy Award (awarded to members of the electronic and print media for outstanding contributions to basketball) in 1991.
- Inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.
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