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Sam Balter : His Life and Times
Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9781450204590
- ISBN-10: 1450204597
- Publisher: iUniverse
- Publish Date: February 2010
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.43 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.53 pounds
- Page Count: 204
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