- Inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1979.
- Inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1976.
- Inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1998.
- Tennis star ranked number 2 in the world, who won the Australian and Wimbledon Grand Slam tournaments in 1951 but quit a year later at age 25 to go into business.
- As a youth, he also played football and basketball, He was co-captain of his high school basketball team, and earned a basketball scholarship to Cornell University. After serving in the Navy, he enrolled at Cornell but suffered a knee injury that essentially ended his basketball career.
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