Free Download Jeffrey S. Gurock, "Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend"
English | ISBN: 1479820873 | 2023 | 248 pages | PDF | 14 MB
2024 TAFWA Book Award Winner
The first comprehensive biography of the preeminent voice of New York sports
For close to half a century after World War II, Marty Glickman was the voice of New York sports. His distinctive style of broadcasting, on television and especially on the radio, garnered for him legions of fans who would not miss his play-by-play accounts. From the 1940s through the 1990s, he was as iconic a sports figure in town as the Yankees' Mickey Mantle, the Knicks' Walt Frazier, or the Jets' Joe Namath. His vocabulary and method of broadcasting left an indelible mark on the industry, and many of today's most famous sportscasters were Glickman disciples. To this very day, many fans who grew up listening to his coverage of Knicks basketball and Giants football games, among the myriad of events that Glickman covered, recall fondly, and can still recite, his descriptions of actions in arenas and stadiums. In
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