Editing Johnny Most (section)

==Biography==

===Early life and career===
Born to [[Jew]]ish parents in [[New York City]], he was named after his paternal grandfather, the [[Germany|German]]-[[Americans|American]] [[anarchist]] newspaper editor and orator [[Johann Most]].<ref>[http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/MostJohann.htm Johann Most Page, Bavarian-American anarchist; from the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011185032/http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/MostJohann.htm |date=2011-10-11 }}</ref>  Johnny Most was one of the many successful graduates of [[DeWitt Clinton High School]] in the [[Bronx]].  After distinguished Air Force service in [[World War II]] (see below), he began his basketball broadcasting career in the late 1940s as a protégé of [[New York Knicks|New York Knickerbockers]] announcer (and 1936 Olympics track star) [[Marty Glickman]]. He was hired in 1953 by Boston Celtics owner [[Walter A. Brown|Walter Brown]] and coach [[Red Auerbach]] to replace [[Curt Gowdy]] as the team's radio play-by-play man on the Celtics radio network.  He also served as sports director for [[WWDJ|WCOP]] radio in Boston at that time.

In addition to his work with the Celtics, he served as host of a rudimentary [[Boston Red Sox]] baseball post-game show on [[WHDH-TV (defunct)|WHDH-TV]], sister station to WHDH radio which carried Celtics games. Sponsored by [[Wheaties]] and [[Waitt & Bond|Blackstone cigars]], this short scoreboard program consisted of Most reading the scores and rattling off pitching changes and home runs. It began in 1958 and ended when WHDH-TV lost its license just before the 1972 season and the telecasts were moved to WBZ-TV. Most also teamed with Marty Glickman to call [[New York Giants]] football in the early 1950s.

In the early 1970s, Most hosted an evening sports talk show on WORL radio which lasted from 5 to 7 PM. WBZ, owner of the Celtics' radio rights, allowed Most to appear only on the first hour of the program, which was broadcast live from a Boston nightspot, so as not to compete with WBZ's ''Calling All Sports'' broadcast.

===World War II===
As an aerial gunner on a [[Consolidated B-24 Liberator|B-24 Liberator]] he flew 28 combat missions with the [[15th Air Force#World War II|15th Air Force]] in [[World War II]], earning seven medals.

Shortly after [[Victory in Europe Day|VE Day]], as his unit broke camp in central [[Italy]], Johnny wandered up a nearby hillside to a graveyard filled with American flags, his final visit to fallen comrades before returning home to the Bronx. A prolific poet, he penned these lines:

<blockquote><poem>
I stood among the graves today and swept the scene with sight.
And the corps of men who lay beneath looked up to say good night.
The thunder still, the battle done, the fray has passed them by;
And as they rest forever more, they must be asking, 'Why?'
</poem></blockquote>