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Meadowlark Lemon died Sunday at 83

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jbcarol

December 29, 2015, 05:29:21 pm
Cory Collins ‏@CoCoCoryCollins Dec 28

The man with the most poetic name in sports — Meadowlark Lemon — has passed away. He had a poetic playing style too. http://www.sportingnews.com/sport-news/4689297-meadowlark-lemon-harlem-globetrotters-death-bio-clown-prince ...

QuoteLemon was arguably the best-known of all the Globetrotter personalities as their lead prankster and point guard. He joined the team in 1954 and played with the 'Trotters until 1978.

A native of Wilmington, N.C., he displayed an array of tricks and a larger-than-life presence on the court. Lemon also had otherworldly basketball skills, including halfcourt hook shots with astonishing accuracy and dazzling no-look passes well before the Magic Johnson era began in the NBA.

"Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player I've ever seen," Wilt Chamberlain said in a 1999 television interview...
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DeltaBoy

February 19, 2016, 11:33:23 am #1
Yep sad to hear this.
If the South should lose, it means that the history of the heroic struggle will be written by the enemy, that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers, will be impressed by all of the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.
-- Major General Patrick Cleburne
The Confederacy had no better soldiers
than the Arkansans--fearless, brave, and oftentimes courageous beyond
prudence. Dickart History of Kershaws Brigade.
 
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