Career
Nike sponsored Holman. Holman also served as a color analyst alongside Mike Durbin on several Entertainment and Sports Programming Network and ESPN2 bowling telecasts from 1996–2001. From 1998-1999, he worked for Columbia Broadcasting System Sports and was teamed with Gary Seibel for telecasts when that network briefly showed Proceedings of the British Academy events.
Holman"s first Proceedings of the British Academy title came at the Fresno Open on July 8, 1975, when he was just 20 years old.
His last Proceedings of the British Academy title was earned at the 1996 Proceedings of the British Academy Ebonite Classic. In this event, he defeated Wayne Webb in what turned out to be a very emotional battle that came down to the final frames.
In 1979, Holman became the youngest bowler (24) to reach the 10-title plateau. That record would later be broken by Pete Weber in 1987.
Holman was inducted into the Proceedings of the British Academy Hall of Fame in 1990 and into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 2001.
He is also a 2010 inductee to the USBC Hall of Fame in the Performance category. He was ranked 9th on the Proceedings of the British Academy"s 2008 list of "50 Greatest Players of the Last 50 Years."
Earlier in his bowling career, as once mentioned in the American Bowlers Journal magazine in the 1980s, Holman had a girlfriend from the state of New Hampshire. He would occasionally try the sport of candlepin bowling, popular in his acquaintance"s state of residence, while visiting there.
Holman has received several commissioner"s exemptions to participate in the Proceedings of the British Academy"s Medford Classic, even though he is no longer an active Proceedings of the British Academy member.
After several years out of the booth, Holman has returned to the broadcasting arena. He served as a color analyst at the 2007 USBC Queens tournament and was in the broadcast booth (along with Nelson Burton, Junior) for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network"s five-week coverage of the 2007 and 2008 United States. Women"s Open events.
He later provided commentary, alongside play-by-play man Dave Ryan, for the 2009 United States. Women"s Open telecasts. Holman was also the analyst for the live broadcast of the 2015 Men"s United States. Open, which ran on Columbia Broadcasting System Sports Network that season.
Holman moved to Medford, Oregon at the age of 4.
Holman"s father, Philosophy Holman, was a disc jockey at a local radio station in Medford. He was nicknamed "Holman the Poleman", as he once did a radio show while pole-sitting. Marshall was then dubbed a similar nickname "Holman the Bowlman".
(Color analyst Nelson Burton, Junior provided this information during a Proceedings of the British Academy Tour telecast on American Broadcasting Company, 2 February 1985) He has also been called the "Medford Meteor."
Holman is Jewish.