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Marty Aronoff on sitting in the broadcast booth - \n"My elbow is one of the most televised elbows in the country, because it's usually in the shot. Sometimes I tell friends of mine, 'If you say something nice, I'll write your name on my elbow.'"\n\nMarty Aronoff, The Legend Native Washingtonian\n\nA Ockershausen:\tThis is Andy Ockershausen, and this is Our Town. We're talking to the busiest guy in Our Town, the man who knows all, sees all, and tells all, but nobody knows him. That's why we're so delighted to have him and a chance to talk to the real Marty Aronoff. Marty, welcome to Our Town!\nMarty Aronoff:\tI'm glad to be here, Andy. Looking forward to it.\nA Ockershausen:\tI don't know how we caught you on the rebound, but you're not doing a game tonight or you didn't do one last night, but you got one coming up, right?\nMarty Aronoff:\tI'm doing game five, the deciding game, tomorrow night for Fox Sports. The Dodgers at the Nationals with Kenny Albert\nA Ockershausen:\tRight here in Wheatey-ville, right?\nMarty Aronoff:\tAbsolutely, and it's one of the big events in Washington sports in a long time.\nA Ockershausen:\tOh, I tell you Marty, the town will be going crazy. I'm sorry that they have to take this fifth game, I thought they were going to win. I just felt so good at getting Kirshel out of there was a made thing, but it didn't happen.\n\tAnyway Marty, Janice just pointed out to me, being a dummy, I assume everybody knows Marty Aronoff is the world\u2019s greatest statistician.\nMarty Aronoff:\tThank you.\nA Statistician\nA Ockershausen:\tNow tell us what a statistician is.\nMarty Aronoff:\tI sit right next to the announcers at every event I work. I work mainly with ESPN, I do their Monday night football, I do college football for them. I do the NBA, major league baseball.\n\tI'm observing the game. I give notes to the announcers that I don't want to ever break up their rhythm when they're saying things over the air, but as I make observations I'll give them notes. If something happens that I think sort of has a historical bent to it, something today that may have related to a game in past years, I'll pass that on.\n\tI'm talking to the people down in the production truck, in the television truck, about graphics we can put up to supplement what the announcers are saying. I've been doing it full-time since 1983 and I actually started part-time in 1975, so it's been a long and fruitful career.\nA Ockershausen:\tLong and wonderful career! Now tell us about the early days. You are a Washingtonian. A native.\nWilson High School, Penn State and Northwestern\nMarty Aronoff:\tI am, I was born in Washington, I went to Wilson High School.\nA Ockershausen:\tIt's our neighbor up here, WMAL.\nMarty Aronoff:\tAbsolutely, and I graduated in '56, I went to Penn State for four years, majored in mathematics. Then went to Northwestern and got a masters in business, and I came back here to Washington, I worked for the federal government for 17 years at mainly what was called the National Bureau of Standards.\nA Ockershausen:\tI remember that so well, my god.\nMarty Aronoff:\tThen I started doing the statistics part-time as sort of a hobby with a friend of mine, Warner Wolf, and loved it so my I decided to see if I could be maybe the first person to make a full-time career out of it.\nA Ockershausen:\tWhy would you go to Penn State? Does that offer some course that, obviously is has nothing to do with statistics, but you picked Penn State, obviously.\nMarty Aronoff:\tWell, having lived in the city all my life and my closest friend who I was with in high school had been admitted to Penn State. He said, "You know, Marty, you might like to go to this school." I went up there with him and loved the campus.\nA Ockershausen:\tYou could ride back and forth together.\nMarty Aronoff:\tYeah.\nA Ockershausen:\tNot a bad idea at that time.\nMarty Aronoff:\tAbsolutely.\nA Ockershausen:\tThat was in the early '60's, right?\nMarty Aronoff:\t'56 to '60, I was there.