Only The Ball Was Brown ®️

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Musician. Misanthrope. Lawyer. Font of useless information. 🇨🇦/🇺🇸 #HoopsHistory Host of Only The Ball Was Brown: https://youtube.com/@inthelowpost?si=Vorpxmh_TaguuCm6

Chicago’s Al Kellett just missed a free throw, and this is how players of the era fight for a rebound: reaching with one hand while shoving with the other. Tillie Voss (right) bats at the ball, taking care a Fort Wayne Hoosiers player won’t get it. On the other side of the free throw line the Bruins’ Honey Russell keeps Fort Wayne’s Shang Chadwick under control and prepares to get the ball Ft. Wayne is in red shirts and black shorts Chicago in white shirts and red shorts Game in Chicago Stadium on Christmas Day, 1929
Photo of basketball books
Photo of hockey goalie Mike Liut circa 1979 with the Cincinnati Stingers of the World Hockey Association
Jan 1970 Sports Illustrated cover featuring Doug Collins of Illinois State
1920s basketball player Slim Shoun, one of basketball’s first “seven footers” (even though he was only 6’11”)
excerpt from an unpublished book about basketball player Vince McNally whose career was cut short after he impaled himself on a fence
Photo of Syracuse basketball star Vic Hanson, circa 1927