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Meadowlark Lemon played in approximately 16,000 consecutive games
Posted on 12/28/15 at 11:19 am
Posted on 12/28/15 at 11:19 am
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Lemon first contacted the Globetrotters before his high school graduation and joined the team in 1954. He missed a game in 1955 because of a bad bowl of goulash in Germany, but that was the last one. What followed was a run, by his calculations, of more than 16,000 straight games that took him to places he never could have imagined
Traveling by car, bus, train or plane nearly every night, Lemon covered nearly 4 million miles to play in over 100 countries and in front of popes and presidents, kings and queens. Known as the "Clown Prince of Basketball," he averaged 325 games per year during his prime, that luminous smile never dimming.
Lemon first contacted the Globetrotters before his high school graduation and joined the team in 1954. He missed a game in 1955 because of a bad bowl of goulash in Germany, but that was the last one. What followed was a run, by his calculations, of more than 16,000 straight games that took him to places he never could have imagined
Traveling by car, bus, train or plane nearly every night, Lemon covered nearly 4 million miles to play in over 100 countries and in front of popes and presidents, kings and queens. Known as the "Clown Prince of Basketball," he averaged 325 games per year during his prime, that luminous smile never dimming.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 11:28 am to LSUMJ
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a run, by his calculations, of more than 16,000 straight games
hmmmm.
wouldn't this be pretty easy to verify?
Posted on 12/28/15 at 11:42 am to LSUMJ
So he went 16,000 - 0
Impressive
Impressive
Posted on 12/28/15 at 11:46 am to LSUMJ
I was at game 14,783. Dude was awesome. I liked him on Scooby Doo, too.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 11:51 am to Freauxzen
Posted on 12/28/15 at 12:35 pm to WG_Dawg
I loved Meadowlark but
his max per year was 325
so that's a little less than 1,000 for 3 years
so 16,000 would take 48 years?
They probably did some matinee/night doubleheaders but his estimate is probably still heavy, no more than a factor of 2 though.
his max per year was 325
so that's a little less than 1,000 for 3 years
so 16,000 would take 48 years?
They probably did some matinee/night doubleheaders but his estimate is probably still heavy, no more than a factor of 2 though.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 2:02 pm to LSUMJ
I respect his play, but as a Washington Generals fan we hated that guy.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 2:08 pm to gthog61
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I loved Meadowlark but
his max per year was 325
so that's a little less than 1,000 for 3 years
so 16,000 would take 48 years?
They probably did some matinee/night doubleheaders but his estimate is probably still heavy, no more than a factor of 2 though.
He was with them for 24 years originally, plus another run in the 90s.
No way it's 16,000... but still, impressive.
Posted on 12/28/15 at 3:00 pm to Freauxzen
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So he went 16,000 - 0
GOAT
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