Sid Hartman

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Sid Hartman covering the 2013 Minnesota Gophers Spring Game.

Sid Hartman (born March 15, 1920) is an American sports journalist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the WCCO 830 AM radio station.

Background and early career

Raised in Northern Minneapolis and dropping out of high school when he started delivering papers for the Minneapolis Tribune,^[1] Hartman received no formal writing training. Hartman penned his first column for the Minneapolis Daily Times on September 11, 1945, and continues to report, now for the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Minneapolis Lakers

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

Sports columnist

Sid Hartman has been a popular and widely read sports columnist throughout his career. Hartman's columns have always been strong on reporting, while the writing is less admired. Dick Cullum, Hartman's first editor, explained it this way: "Writers are a dime a dozen, but reporters are impossible to find." Steve Rushin of Sports Illustrated, noted, "English sometimes appears to be his second language." ^[3]

Hartman has also appeared as a radio sportscaster and commentator for years on Minneapolis's WCCO Radio. One of the elements of his style - often caricatured by local comics and other radio personalities - is his habit while interviewing a sports figure of referring to him or her as "my close personal friend". Over the years, his "close personal friends" have included the likes of George Steinbrenner, Bobby Knight, Lou Holtz, and Carl Yastrzemski.

Author

Hartman has published two books:

Sid!
Sid Hartman's Great Minnesota Sports Moments

Family

Son Chad Hartman also has a radio show on WCCO. Hartman's name was among tens of thousands on Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff's client list. It is not publicly known how much money, if any, Hartman lost with Madoff when the $50 billion fraud was exposed late in 2008.^[4]

References

↑ http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/03/12/sid_hartman
↑ The Dynasties: Minneapolis Lakers By Alex Sachare From the Official NBA Encyclopedia, Third Edition
↑ Prince of the Sports Page by Steve Rushin
↑ "Hundreds in Minnesota are Madoff clients," Minneapolis Star Tribune, February 5, 2009

External links

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Print	1990: Herbert 1991: Dorr 1992: Goldaper 1993: Lewin 1994: Koppett 1995: Hammel 1996: Hentzen 1997: Ryan 1998: Donald & Weiss 1999: Barrier 2000: Kindred 2001: Kirkpatrick 2002: O'Connell 2003: Hartman 2004: Jasner 2005: McCallum 2006: Heisler 2007: Moran 2008: DuPree 2009: Vecsey 2010: MacMullan 2011: Wolff 2012: Smith 2013: Feinstein

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Name	Hartman, Sid
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Short description	American sportswriter
Date of birth	March 15, 1920
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