Summary
GEORGE KING couldn't wait for his good friend and teammate Sonny Moran to arrive at the YMCA gymnasium on Capitol Street.
King, a freshman on the Morris Harvey College basketball team, had just invented a new move to the basket and, after trying it out against several less talented YMCA regulars, wanted to test its effectiveness against a more accomplished player like Moran.See the full content of this document
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George King Honed His Game at Ymca Gym
It was a Saturday morning in the late 1940s and, by mutual understanding, many of the city's best players would make their way to the YMCA for weekly pickup games. Your team played until it lost.
When Moran, who liv...See the full content of this document
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