Sports Journalist. He was born to Jewish immigrants and grew up in Minneapolis. In the early 1940s, he got out of the vacuum business with a break from the manager of the Minneapolis Times who gave him the Times news run for downtown Minneapolis. In 1944, he was recommended to the Times' sports editor and columnist who needed a sports desk intern. He was hired and began a sports writing career that would last over 75 years. He wrote his first column for the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper on September 11, 1945 and continued writing columns for the paper until his death. From 1955 until his death, he also appeared as a radio sportscaster and commentator on Minneapolis's WCCO 830 AM Radio. For 20 years, he was a panelist on WUCW 23 in the Twin Cities Metro area on the weekly television show, Sports Show with Mike Max. When he was 27 years old in 1947, he became the acting general manager of the Minneapolis Lakers and helped build what would become the first dynasty in the NBA. In 2010, he was honored with a statue of him unveiled outside of Target Center in downtown Minneapolis. The Minnesota Vikings named the media entrance at U.S. Bank Stadium after him, with photos of Hartman adorning the media entrance. They also named the interview room at their new practice facility in honor of him. There is also a statue of him located outside Target Field. Not only was U.S. Bank Stadium named in his honor, but so were media rooms at Target Field. The University of Minnesota renamed the press box at TCF Bank Stadium the Sid Hartman Press Box on November 17, 2018. He also wrote two books, “Sid!: The Sports Legends, the Inside Scoops, and the Close Personal Friends” is an autobiography that goes into the Minnesota sports scene from 1940 and onward, and “Sid Hartman's Great Minnesota Sports Moments” When he turned 100 in March 2020, he had 21,149 bylines by that time. The final column written by him was published by the Star Tribune the day he passed away.