did to marty glickman. >> how could any person keep me from competing?only two jewish members of the u.s. team were pulled from their events. it took the olympic committee 62 years to finally honor him with a plaque in lieu of the gold medals he did not win. marty glickman went on to become an all-american football player at syracuse university and a legendary sportscaster, raising generations, that's plural, of new york sports fans. with us now is james friedman, the filmmaker behind the new hbo documentary "glickman." it debuts next monday exclusively on hbo. thank you so much for joining us. for those who don't know marty glickman or don't understand his impact, talk about how impactful and why he was so important in sportscasting. >> marty glickman was a legend dare sportscaster for the new york area. if you grew up as any kind of sports fan in the latter part of the 20th century, he was part of the sound track of your life. what some people don't know about marty is as a sportscaster, he revolutionized basketball radio play by play. many of the expr

did to marty glickman. >> it was the first jock turned broadcaster in the history of of our media. >>ented the game into the consciousness of america. >> i would talk like him, i would walk like him. >> he had don something that really hadn't been done before and hasn't been done since. >> that was part of the new "glickman" documentary. jim friedman, incredible story. the flat bush flash. an amazing runner, a kid from brooklyn, who basically u.s. removed him from the olympic team in hitler's germany in '36, obviously, because he was a jew, replaced by jesse owen. >> marty was a legendary sportscaster in new york, did the knicks and the giants and t the jets. and if you grew up in the ladder part of the 20th century and were any part of a sports fan, marty glickman was the soundtrack of your life. but the story people don't really remember about him was that he was a world class athlete, a world class runner, the third fastest man in the world behind jesse owen and ralph metcalf in 1936 and he was part of the relay team with another jewish runner, sam stoler, and he was denied a chanc