Respected Career Brings Glick to Hall

After nearly four decades of covering the greatest names in auto racing, Shav Glick will be enshrined alongside them later this month when he is inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame and Museum.

A sports reporter for six decades and widely regarded as a standard-bearer for auto racing journalists in America, The Times reporter is a respected figure in both industries.

Among his many honors, he received the Jim Murray Outstanding Journalist Award, and is among only five Lifetime Achievement Award winners in the 20-year history of the Motor Press Guild. The Eagle One Shav Glick Award is presented annually for distinguished achievements in motor racing by a Californian.

Glick will participate in ceremonies July 29 in Detroit. The first daily print journalist to be enshrined, he joins 1994 inductee Chris Economaki as the only other media member to be inducted into the Novi, Mich., museum.

Glick is among seven who will be honored, and is the at-large inductee from a group that typically includes promoters, boat racers, land speed and off-road racers.

He will be presented by three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Johnny Rutherford.

Other inductees will be Bill France Jr., stock cars; Bobby Rahal, open wheel racing; Joe Amato, drag racing; Geoff Brabham, sports cars; the late Don Vesco, motorcycles; the late Johnnie Parsons, historic selection.

In recognition, Saturday will be Shav Glick Night at Irwindale Speedway, which will honor him at 6:30, before the races.

A 1942 graduate of California, Glick is a former bicycle racer who was a Pasadena Junior College classmate of Jackie Robinson. He served on Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s staff in Japan.

He wrote for the Berkeley Gazette in 1942 and ‘43, before joining the Pasadena Star-News in 1946, the Los Angeles Mirror in 1955, and The Times in 1963.