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.
- | Author: Balter Kahn Barbara Balter Kahn
- | Publisher: iUniverse
- | Publication Date: Feb 17, 2010
- | Number of Pages: 204 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 1450204597
- | ISBN-13: 9781450204590
