Other newspapers Hochman worked for include the Brownsville Herald, Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Waco News-Tribune, and San Bernardino Sun.
Hochman's career at the Daily News began on June 9, 1959, and he spent 55 years covering not just the Phillies, but everything sports, in what was to be his adopted hometown — and the town loved him back for it.
Twenty-one year Daily News editor-in-chief Zack Stalberg said Hochman "was the finest all-around sports journalist Philadelphia has ever seen."
Hochman once observed that the city had never honored Frazier, but "Somehow they found a place for a hokey sculpture of Rocky Balboa, a fictional palooka.
[13] During his television stint, Hochman also hosted a program, On Camera, interviewing guests unrelated to sports.