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edmundfitzgeraldedmundfitzgerald Posts: 4,306 ✭✭
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I played for the Boston Celtics, the baseball Dodgers, was a successful actor, and was very admired by a Russian president.

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  • orioles93orioles93 Posts: 3,474 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dave DeBusschere???
    What I Collect:

    PSA HOF Baseball Postwar Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 80.51% Complete)


    PSA Pro Football HOF Rookie Players Set Registry- (Currently 19.80% Complete)


    PSA Basketball HOF Players Rookies Set Registry- (Currently 6.02% Complete)
  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    Chuck Connors.
  • BrickBrick Posts: 4,981 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I had heard many years ago he was the first to shatter a backboard. Can anyone confirm this?
    Collecting 1960 Topps Baseball in PSA 8
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    Ralph

  • mcadamsmcadams Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Chuck Connors. >>



    +1
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  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭


    << <i>I had heard many years ago he was the first to shatter a backboard. Can anyone confirm this? >>


    Backboard shattering - From Wikipedia
    Throughout the history of basketball there have always been athletes with the size and strength to slam dunk the ball through the rim. However, the first NBA player to shatter a backboard, Chuck Connors (who would become far more famous as an actor), did not do so with a dunk. When playing for the Boston Celtics in 1946, Connors took a set shot during pregame warmups, hitting the front of the rim. Because an arena worker had failed to place a protective piece between the rim and backboard, the backboard shattered.
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • edmundfitzgeraldedmundfitzgerald Posts: 4,306 ✭✭
    Good job guys.

    Yes, he did shatter a backboard. He led the Rochester team to the national championship before joining the Boston Celtics in 1946. 1946 was
    the 1st year of the Celtics team. He left the Celtics to play with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He only hit two home runs in his MLB career.

    His hit show Gunsmoke rose to #4. It was shown in Russia, and it was the Russian presidents favorite show. He wanted Connors to come to Russia, but we wouldn't allow it.
  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭


    << <i>Good job guys.
    His hit show Gunsmoke rose to #4. It was shown in Russia, and it was the Russian presidents favorite show. He wanted Connors to come to Russia, but we wouldn't allow it. >>



    NO, no, no, no, no. LOL

    NOT Gunsmoke ... THE RIFLEMAN!
    STAY HEALTHY!

    Doug

    Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
  • edmundfitzgeraldedmundfitzgerald Posts: 4,306 ✭✭
    LOL.

    I think Gunsmoke and the Rifleman were the last two "western" tv series we had before the family type series hit in the early to mid-70's.
    We got Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Good Times, Eight Is Enough. So the westerns got scrapped in the 70's, along with the sci-fi like Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie,
    Lost In Space, Twilight Zone.

    Then the 80's came and I don't know what we got in that era. I was into other things by then.
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