How does a ticket to a 1941 basketball doubleheader link Ohio, the tire industry, burgers, the Star of David, Harlem, FDR, Nike, the UN, and Norman Rockwell?
Episode 3: The Four Freedoms Ticket of 1941
Part 2 of my two-part article on John ‘Boy Wonder’ Isaacs, originally published in the 2015 Enshrinement Weekend Yearbook of the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Complex Magazine, the very hip culture publication, has launched a new basketball lifestyle website called Triangle Offense. We feel honored to be featured among its very first articles!
BFF founder and executive director Claude Johnson gave a history presentation to kids at the Riverside Hawks Summer Camp in Harlem, joined by Nike basketball designers and veteran NBA guard Royal Ivey.
For fans like me, the amazing basketball events of last week — beautifully staged by Nike and the Basketball Hall of Fame, from Harlem to Springfield and back — might as well have been called the “World Basketball Orgy.”
The New York Rens have been in the news a lot lately, so that might explain why these Nike retros are hot right now.
As with any long-lived icon of sports, culture, and history, it is nearly impossible to encapsulate all of the thoughts and remembrances of people into one service, one article, one story, one comment. So, I will continue to share topics relating to John Isaacs from time to time, starting with these.
Isaacs’ biggest contributions came well after his playing days ended.
A close look at the last line of copy in this 1904 advertisement for gum bottom “basket ball” shoes may explain why Spalding lost its grip on the athletic footwear business a century ago.
Various updates that are unconnected. Or are they?