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Sam Balter: His Life and Times
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ISBN10: 1450204597
ISBN13: 9781450204590
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Feb 17 2010
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781450204590
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Feb 17 2010
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Sam Balter was a pioneer in the field of sports broadcasting. He had the first coast-to-coast radio sportscast and televised the first football game in the Southern California area, as well as baseball and basketball games. He was a newscaster during WWII and was the independent radio pool correspondent for the birth of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945. Along with a nightly sports program, a daily sports newspaper column, he was cast in frequent movies in like roles. But, all these activities took a back seat to his most treasured sobriquet: Olympian. He was a gold medal winner in basketball in the 1936 Hitler Olympics. And, he was a Jew.
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