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b'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\\u2019 Mickey Mantle, the Knicks\\u2019 Walt Frazier, or the Jets\\u2019 Joe Namath.

In addition to the stories of how he became a master of American sports airwaves, Marty Glickman has also been remembered as a Jewish athlete who, a decade before he sat in front of a microphone, was cynically barred from running in a signature track event in the 1936 Olympics by anti-Semitic American Olympic officials. Glickman\\u2019s story underscores the complexities that faced his generation of American Jews as these children of immigrants emerged from their ethnic cocoons and strove to succeed in America amid challenges to their professional and social advancement.

To explore Glickman\\u2019s story is today\\u2019s guest, Jeffrey Gurock, author of Marty Glickman: The Life of an American Jewish Sports Legend.'