Marty Zippel

Martin D. Zippel


Born:
February 7, 1922
Philadelphia, PA

Died:
October 17, 2018
Jupiter, FL


Career
1938-39 South High School - Philadelphia (High School)
1945-46 Lafayette College (College)
1946-47 Lafayette College (College)
1947-48 Lafayette College (College)
1948-49 Lafayette College (College)
1949-50 Wilkes-Barre Barons (ABL)
1950-51 Wilkes-Barre Barons (ABL) Head coach / player

Zippel was born to Hyman and Clara Zippel in Philadelphia. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War 2, and attended Lafayette after the war where lettered four years in basketball. After a couple years with the Wilkes-Barre Barons, even filling in as the head coach for a game, Zippel would become a successful business man, as president of Martin Zippel Inc. in Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania.

Marty married Doris Levin (d. 2003) and they had a son and a daughter.



Source:
mcall.com, April 26, 1990
Jews In Sports
Jewish Exponent, June 24, 2013
Obituary, Express Times, October 19, 2018

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