Editing Johnny Most (section)

===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.