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Ocala Mike
01-14-2014, 10:28 AM
This is a truly great documentary about a legendary sports announcer:

http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/glickman

Watched it this morning; airs again on 1/29, 10:30 pm. Add a star if you're a New Yorker (or have New York roots) "of a certain age."

mountainman
01-14-2014, 03:17 PM
This is a truly great documentary about a legendary sports announcer:

http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/glickman

Watched it this morning; airs again on 1/29, 10:30 pm. Add a star if you're a New Yorker (or have New York roots) "of a certain age."

My brother called me at 2:am last night raving about Glickman. So I pulled up HBO-go on my roku and found that, while the channel is supposedly free to HBO subscribers, Comcast customers are apparently excluded. Roku gave me an activation code and directed me to the HBO-go website, but Comcast, unbelievably, was not listed among the myriad of providers there.

HoofedInTheChest
01-14-2014, 06:50 PM
Great documentary, i caught this a couple of months ago and i highly recommend it.

The man led an eventful life that's for sure.

lansdale
01-14-2014, 10:36 PM
This is a truly great documentary about a legendary sports announcer:

http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/glickman

Watched it this morning; airs again on 1/29, 10:30 pm. Add a star if you're a New Yorker (or have New York roots) "of a certain age."

Hi OM,

Thanks for posting about this. The voice of Glickman doing play-by-play is part of my life, as is the case with many in the New York area. I well remember him doing Giant games with Chip Cipolla and Al DeRogatis in the early '70s (before I was born, of course). Also worth remembering that he was a world-class track star, and only was prevented from competing in the 1936 Olympics because Nazi-sympathizer Avery Brundage deferred to Hitler's wish not to have Jews compete (teammate Sam Stoller was also replaced). Interesting that his teammate and friend Jesse Owens protested his dismissal.

I've linked a piece on the HBO documentary by comedy writer Ken Levine, ('M.A.S.H.',' Cheers', 'Frasier') who moonlights as a baseball announcer. He was a lifelong fan of Glickman, who had given him some useful advice early in his second career.

http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2013/09/one-of-my-great-mentors.html


Cheers,

lansdale

Ocala Mike
01-15-2014, 06:07 PM
I was amazed by the number of top-notch announcers he mentored. Man was a giant in the field.