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Bert Lee, sportscaster, is also WHN's Sales Director, Bertram Lebhar, Jr.
Ward Wilson, Bert Lee and Marty Glickman, heard on WHN's Warm Up Time and Sports. Extra.
Inside story on Today's Baseball. Here Buddy Greenspan spins crowd noise records and Bert produces the sound of a hit as Marty broadcasts.
TO metropolitan listeners, Bert Lee is the man who brings them the fastest game of baseball in radio, a 15-minute, play-by-play account of one of the two most exciting games of the day broadcast on WHN's Today's Baseball. Marty Glickman, WHN sports director does the other game. Both are heard daily from 7:00 to 7:30 P.M., EDT.
Lee creates the game from notes taken from the news ticker tape, adds the crowd noises with phonograph records and a realistic crack of the bat meeting a fast ball with the aid of a toy night club hammer and a wooden block. The result is an early evening baseball game for millions of workers who formerly got their only baseball thrills from the box scores.
Along with Today's Baseball, Bert Lee broadcasts numerous other sports programs for WHN, which puts him in a class with the nation's top sportscasters. With Ward Wilson, one of the country's outstanding radio performers and sports experts, and the aforementioned Glickman, Bert also does Warm-Up Time, inside dope from the dugouts, preceding each Dodger game, and Sports Extra, immediately following the Dodger broadcasts, featuring scores and highlights from around the leagues.
Not satisfied with being a leading radio personality, Lee as Bertram Lebhar, Jr., is also sales director for WHN, whose lead in the radio sports world is due in a large measure to the combination of Lee-Lebhar.
Sportscaster-Sales Director Lebhar would seem to have little time to play the role of family man. His New Rochelle, N. Y„, household includes Evelyn Lebhar, Bert's wife, and five robust, handsome children, Bert III, 18 years old and an upper freshman at Cornell University; Godfrey M. II, 14 years old and a sophomore at New Rochelle High School; 11 -year-old Barbara, who is attending Roosevelt Public School; Suzanne, age 9, also at Roosevelt Public School, and the youngest, Vivienne, 8 years old.
The gathering of the Lebhar clan at the dinner table means that the crowded sports activities of the day will be discussed in knowledgeable fashion by all members of the household, from tot to teen, with dad and mom presiding. The Lebhar children fail to understand why other youngsters in the neighborhood are not conversant with current football strategy, hot stove league palaver and wrestling techniques.
The National Father's Day Committee, aware of Bert's accomplishments in both private and business life, awarded him a citation two years ago for his outstanding contribution to radio and his meritorious record as a father. The citation, presented to him on Father's Day, 1946, read: "To Bert Lee, for his supremacy as sports commentator, bridge expert and exemplary father and family man."
Bert received his college training at Cornell University and New York Law School. He changed his mind about being a lawyer and entered the radio field where he became a salesman with a record just short of fabulous.