Hundley Event Prompts Memories of Charleston Native

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MORGANTOWN - More than a half-century after he played his last game for the Mountaineers, Hot Rod Hundley's No. 33 will be retired by West Virginia University during Saturday afternoon's nationally televised basketball game against Ohio State.

This will be another tribute for one of basketball's most colorful players and one of West Virginia's greatest athletes. Had it not been for basketball and friends at the Charleston YMCA, who knows where Hundley's life would have led?

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Hundley Event Prompts Memories of Charleston Native

While his achievements on the basketball court and behind a microphone are well known, few know what Hundley had to endure to get where he is today.

Born during the Great Depression in 1934 in Charleston, he was raised by strangers, had no family or friends, was handed from one family to another and was abused and mistreated. When Hundley was a baby, his unemployed mother needed work and left for Washington, and his father, who worked at The Strand pool hall, deserted him.

Few people know that the man who returned to WVU at age 65 to finish his bachel...

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