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re: Pistol Pete little know fact
Posted on 6/22/22 at 9:37 pm to Herodijontiger
Posted on 6/22/22 at 9:37 pm to Herodijontiger
Last white man to win NBA scoring title.
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Posted on 6/22/22 at 11:10 pm to mojoebigdog
That is true.
Posted on 6/22/22 at 11:23 pm to Tiger1988
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How about floppy socks he wore Yep. If I remember right, he would wash them after every game. Never had them laundered with his uniform.
I have a pair of his NO Jazz socks. He gave them to me after a game in the dome. No documentation. But IDGAF. I know they were his.
Posted on 6/22/22 at 11:28 pm to mojoebigdog
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Only white player ever invited to play with Harlem Globtrotters
Meadowlark BEGGED him to join. It is a fact.
Posted on 6/22/22 at 11:38 pm to mojoebigdog
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invited to play with Harlem Globtrotters
This was after his career, right?
Posted on 6/23/22 at 12:31 am to mojoebigdog
Thanks for this post! Was too young to see him play at LSU. Found this article. Good read. He was amazing!
LINK
LINK
This post was edited on 6/23/22 at 12:32 am
Posted on 6/23/22 at 12:33 am to Tiger1988
Also, Rick Hickman, LSU starting guard throughout Pete's entire career was from Aliquippa, if I remember correctly. Can't remember is his first name was Rich or Rick though!
Posted on 6/23/22 at 12:42 am to justsaygeaux2
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Only white player ever invited to play with Harlem Globtrotters
Meadowlark BEGGED him to join. It is a fact.
Well, Meadowlark may have begged him to play but the fact is he wasn't the first white player invited to play for the globetrotters
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jan-07-me-karstens7-story.html
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L.A. TIMES ARCHIVES
JAN. 7, 2005 12 AM PT
FROM A TIMES STAFF WRITER
Bob Karstens, the third white player for the Harlem Globetrotters and the only one under a contract, who created many of their signature routines such as the pregame “Magic Circle,” has died. He was 89.
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Abe Saperstein, founder of the Globetrotters and one of the other original white players, along with Buddy Levitt, saw Karstens play when the Globetrotters were matched against the Turner Gym team in Iowa. When Reece “Goose” Tatum was drafted into the Army Air Forces in 1942, Saperstein asked Karstens to step in as the team’s designated showman.
1942, 5 years before the Pistol was born.
Posted on 6/23/22 at 1:12 am to mojoebigdog
quote:Attention whore bullshite - even worse since you did it about Pistol.
Only white player ever invited to play with Harlem Globtrotters
Posted on 6/23/22 at 1:41 am to mojoebigdog
Not that little known actually
Posted on 6/23/22 at 2:12 am to mojoebigdog
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I know his son and said his dad was invited to play
Objection, hearsay.
Posted on 6/23/22 at 6:36 am to mojoebigdog
Posted on 6/23/22 at 7:05 am to oldskule
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Posted on 6/23/22 at 8:48 am to mojoebigdog
I used to keep stats on the LSU bench during the Maravich era. When the
Globetrotters came to LSU they played in the Ag center, and the then owner of the Globetrotters Abe Saperstein stayed to see Pete play and he said " My God hes one of us".
Globetrotters came to LSU they played in the Ag center, and the then owner of the Globetrotters Abe Saperstein stayed to see Pete play and he said " My God hes one of us".
Posted on 6/23/22 at 8:59 am to mojoebigdog
I watched a documentary on Pistol Pete the other day and they did mention this in the show. He was actually invited to play with them and he turned it down.
Posted on 6/23/22 at 9:19 am to mojoebigdog
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Only
quote:Not the same thing
first
Posted on 6/23/22 at 9:27 am to mojoebigdog
He never owned a pistol.
I don't know. Just made that up.
I don't know. Just made that up.
Posted on 6/23/22 at 10:03 am to tiger81
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Last white man to win NBA scoring title.
had to go look that one up.
just seems like someone like Bird or maybe even Dirk would gotten one
Posted on 6/23/22 at 10:09 am to mojoebigdog
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How about floppy socks he wore
long time but I think he got them from some team his dad coached before LSU, he thought they brought him luck(something sure did!
) always wore them at LSU, washed them after every game ETA: knew a guy that owns a music store in Jupiter, Fl that went to LSU at the same time as Maravich, told me he used to give him guitar lessons, he has pics and memorabilia to prove it
he was the first person to tell me how Maravich used to drive his VW around campus while dribbling a basketball, and of course it was a stick
This post was edited on 6/23/22 at 10:29 am
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