Inducted into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, 2002
Born in Hartford, Roisman attended West Hartford’s Hall High School, where he played varsity soccer, basketball, and golf. The golf team became state champions, and the soccer team were state semi-finalists. At Amherst College, he was the 1982 Massachusetts Intercollegiate Individual Champion in golf and made the All-New England Golf Team that same year. He is a 6-time Men’s Club Champion at Tumble Brook Country Club and has competed in and achieved high finishes in many state and regional competitions both in Connecticut and in the DC metro area. He held the amateur tournament course record at Oak Ridge, MA of 66 and shot a personal best 64 at Wolf Creek in Mesquite, NV in 2018.
Roisman was the first full-time sports attorney in the State of Connecticut, and he founded the Sports Law Society at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he received his law degree. He also founded Roisman Pro-Rep and later became Director of the Golf Division of Octagon (formerly Advantage International), then the world’s second largest sports management company. He represented all-stars in the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, and Major League Baseball, and represented both Basketball and Golf Hall-of-Famers, along with major winners from the PGA Tour.
Roisman was very active in the Sports Lawyers Association and was the National Secretary for 23 years. He was a featured speaker at many sports-related conferences, and a regular panelist on the nationally syndicated television talk show “The Sports Group.” Roisman has testified before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on the topic of “Relocation of Sports Franchises.”