- Member of the New York Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
- Longtime radio broadcaster for several New York sports teams.
- Member of the American Sportscasters Association Hall of Fame (1993).
- Recipient of the Curt Gowdy Award (awarded to members of the electronic and print media for outstanding contributions to basketball) in 1991.
- Inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.
- His niece was Suzanne Pleshette.
- He created "Junior Champions", a Saturday afternoon TV series on NBC in 1954 that featured competition between two New York City youth groups (like the Police Athletic League and YMCA) and a famous sports guest star who conducted an on-the-air clinic. The winners each year qualified for a massive playoff in Madison Square Garden at the end of the season.
- Graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York where he starred in track and football.
- Graduated from Syracuse University.
- Made the United States Olympic team as a sprinter in 1936 but was barred at the last minute to placate the Nazis.
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