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Spencer Ross
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With the exception of the New York Mets, Ross has called play-by-play for every professional New York metropolitan area sports franchise, including the Yankees of MLB, the Nets and Knicks of the National Basketball Association, and Jets and Giants of the NFL. He has also called games for the Americans of the American Bar Association and, in the National Hockey League, for the New Jersey Devils, New York Islanders and the New York Rangers. Outside of New York, he has called games for the Florida State Seminoles and Boston Celtics. Nationally, he has worked for the NFL on National Broadcasting Company, Major League Baseball on Columbia Broadcasting System Radio, the National Collegiate Athletic Association Basketball Tournament on Westwood One Radio and as the lead play by play announcer for the 1992 United States of America Olympic Dream Team with Dick Vitale.
Ross"s mentor was the legendary Marty Glickman who tutored Ross at around the same time as his better-known pupil, Marv Albert.
In fact, in discussing his two star pupils (Albert & Ross), Glickman once noted that Ross was one of the best, if not the best radio play-by-player ever to call a game citing his distinctive voice and ability to make smooth transitions during game play. Ross attended Florida State University on a basketball scholarship and, while there, called baseball and basketball games for the Seminoles.
He currently does weekend sports updates for World International News Service-Department of Administration and Management. In 2009, he was inducted into the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame.
