From Street and Smith's Sports Business Journal
In the Office
Phil Hochberg: Sports Attorney
Published May 07, 2007 : Page 38
Phil Hochberg has witnessed virtually every major sporting event in the Washington, D.C., area for more than 40 years. As the public address announcer for the Washington Redskins from 1963 to 2001, the Washington Senators for six years in the 1960s and a fi ll-in for the Baltimore Orioles in the 1980s, Hochberg has had a unique vantage point on the area's sporting past. The Redskins even honored him after the 2000 season in their Ring of Stars at FedEx Field.
As a sports lawyer who has been practicing since 1971, Hochberg also has had first-person access to sports' legal tussles for close to 40 years. He counts some of the country's biggest sports properties as his clients, including the NFL, NBA, NHL, NCAA and PGA Tour.
Having grown up in the city, Hochberg now plies his trade as an attorney in Rockville, Md., less than eight miles from his childhood home.
1. Autographed "Tank McNamara" originals about Hochberg's clients, sent by Jeff Millar, on the wall;
2. a 1956 photo of Hochberg's favorite Redskin, linebacker Chuck Drazenovich, a childhood friend of Hochberg's brother-in-law;
3. the pen used to sign the fi rst sports pay cable contract between HBO and the Bucks, sent by the team's president, Bill Alverson
4. A basketball signed by D.C.-area college coaches Gary Williams of Maryland, George Washington's Karl Hobbs and George Mason's Jim Larranaga;
5 . Super Bowl tickets and commemorative footballs;
6. a Frank Howard nesting egg and a Washington Senators bobblehead from the 1950s
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A 2006 football autographed by Redskins coach Joe Gibbs
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A 1969 baseball that includes the autographs from 35 hall of famers,
including Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams
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A combined picture of stars of two franchises that Hochberg worked
for: the Senators on the left and the Redskins on right
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The 1982 Orioles scorecard from Cal Ripken Jr.'s first game at shortstop
(Hochberg was PA announcer); a baseball card of a favorite Senator, Herb Plews
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An autographed photo from the Senators' 1957 infield. In 1991, Pete
Runnels signed and mailed it just hours before he suffered a fatal stroke;
Sugar Ray Leonard's boxing gloves
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