Akron, Ohio’s all-black American Legion Post No. 272 basketball team was a wartime squad that won the Akron city championship for the 1944-45 season.
Akron, Ohio’s 1940s American Legion Basketball Team Helped Fight City’s Long History of Black Under-Education
One is a media pass to a history-making event. The other was an “errant” pass that may have changed history.
This weekend marks the 70th anniversary of the historic date (March 28, 1939) the all-black New York Renaissance defeated the Oshkosh All Stars to win the championship title in the inaugural World Professional Basketball Tournament at the Chicago Coliseum.
Jackie Robinson was much better at basketball than at baseball, and may have been the finest hoops player of his time.
In 1920, Chris Huiswoud became the first basketball referee of African descent to be formally sanctioned (allowed) by the AAU.
They were pretty. They were magnificent. They were the Chicago Roamers, a.k.a. the Roamer Girls, a great African American womens basketball team you probably never heard of until now.
We are reminded. Successful athletes, as well as successful people, know that this prayer gets to the essence of success. Why? Because to be successful requires having a definite major purpose, otherwise we would stop cold every time we lose, wouldn’t we? But we keep going. And here’s why. Remembering to “smile, and be a… Read more »