By Dennis D’Agostino
When usually I came to visit him at dusk there was nothing to do. He stood in the shack, counting tickets and rubbing his belly. The radio was always on. “Man, have you dug that mad Marty Glickman announcing basketball games --- up-to-midcourt-bounce-fake-set-shot, swish, two points. Absolutely the greatest announcer I ever heard.” He was reduced to simple pleasures like these.
--- From “On The Road”
by Jack Kerouac, 1957
In the 1940s, throughout the ‘50s and into the ‘60s, Marty Glickman wasn’t just the voice of the Knicks or the voice of Madison Square Garden.