Walton, West, Mays: A remarkable, almost unbearable loss
Jun 23, 2024 · Bill Walton, Jerry West and Willie Mays: Their deaths in less than a month’s time represent a remarkable, almost unbearable loss for sports, which in our fraught moment is perhaps the only shared experience Americans have.
The Night Baylor Scored 71 Points - by bobkuska
May 29, 2021 · He has been likened—and quite justifiably, we'd say—to Willie Mays’ preeminence in baseball. He most certainly is “the Willie Mays of basketball!” Jocko Collins, famed basketball referee and scout, who has seen the greats in basketball for most of half a century says: “Elgin has the greatest body control I have ever seen.”
Los Angeles Lakers: Behind-the-scenes with Elgin Baylor and his ...
On the boards above stairs, the Harlem Globe Trotters were gyrating through their well-rehearsed routines, which only superficially resemble basketball. Hawkins reappeared. "Willie Mays, they...
Gary Mays, Armstong High’s one-armed wonder, dead at 82
Jan 25, 2018 · Baltimore employed a box-and-one defense against Baylor that night, using senior captain Gary Mays to shadow the city’s best player. Mays’ only job was to stick close to Baylor, to make it as difficult as possible for him to get free.
Elgin Baylor - Biography and Facts
Elgin Gay Baylor was a professional basketball player, who played for Los Angeles Lakers. He was born on September 16, 1934 and began playing basketball from an early age. Two of his older brothers were also basketball players, and Baylor took naturally to the game.
The night Elgin Baylor made MSG history with 71 points vs. Knicks
Mar 24, 2021 · “You don’t trade Willie Mays. And you don’t trade Elgin Baylor.” There were 10,132 people on hand to catch a doubleheader at Madison Square Garden that night, and the 2-for-1 was really the...
Willie Mays Was Baseball’s Last Mythic Hero - The Nation
Jun 21, 2024 · Willie Mays, the baseball superstar who played for 22 years with the Giants and Mets, died on June 18, 2024. He was 93. With his death, the era of the living, mythic baseball hero is over....
Elgin Baylor: The Man Who Changed Basketball - amazon.com
Aug 13, 2015 · In Elgin Baylor: The Man Who Changed Basketball, Bijan C. Bayne tells the story of how a kid from the streets of segregated Washington, DC, who didn’t attend college until he was over twenty, revolutionized basketball and stood up for his rights.
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Wilt vs. Elgin: When Their World Was the Playground - Grantland
Williams got Vokes to save spots on the hoops roster for Baylor and Gary Mays, a one-armed phenom from Spingarn’s rival, Armstrong High.
'Mr Hang Time' Elgin Baylor, NBA and Lakers Legend Dies Aged …
Mar 23, 2021 · The Los Angeles Lakers have suffered another loss as one of their legendary former players, Elgin Baylor passed away of natural causes at the age of 86.
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