Ellis E. "Woody" Erdman (April 16, 1926, Ashland, Pennsylvania – February 10, 1997, Greensboro, North Carolina) [1] was an American sportscaster, television producer,[2] and businessman who served as chairman of Trans-National Communications, International Trade & Commerce Corporation [3] and Boston Celtics.
Ellis Erdman was a combat veteran of World War II, having served with the US Army Air Corps from 1944 to the V-J Day.
He was a crew member on several B-29s based on the island of Tinian, and received the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster.
Erdman's career in broadcasting began while he was a student at Penn State University in the late 1940s, and worked at several radio stations in central Pennsylvania, where he met his future wife, Phebe Mae Weeks, and they were married in 1948.
As chairman of ITC, Erdman was believed to have "orchestrated a classic "pump and dump" scheme," but died in 1997 before ever tried in court.