Sid Hartman

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Sid Hartman (born March 15, 1920) is a longtime sports journalist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the WCCO 830 AM radio station. He is known for his wide range of insider contacts in the sports world, and also for his coarse and often abrasive personality, and his incessant name dropping. These attributes have led him to be loved by some, but often reviled by other sports fans in Minnesota. A high-school dropout, Hartman never received formal writing training and it's obvious. Instead Sid worked both as a reporter and general manager of the five time NBA Champion Minneapolis Lakers. Accordingly, his columns tend to reflect a simplistic and inarticulate form, choosing to dispense rudimentary diatribes that rarely rise above mere rhetoric and hyperbole. Dick Cullum, Sid's first editor, explained it this way, "Writers are a dime a dozen, but reporters are impossible to find."^[1] In the Twin Cities, Hartman is often referred to by his first name only. Hartman first penned a column in the Minneapolis Daily Times on September 11, 1945, and continues to report six decades later. He is recognized as the dean of area sports reporters. His son, Chad Hartman, also has a radio show on area sports station KFAN. His two books are Sid!, and Sid Hartman's Great Minnesota Sports Moments.

Sid Hartman is a member of the Oak Ridge Country Club in Hopkins, Minnesota.

A few of his notable "close personal friends" are:

[edit] Minneapolis Lakers

As a 27 year old in 1947, Sid became the acting general manager of the Minneapolis Lakers. Sid helped build what would become the first great dynasty in the NBA. ^[2]