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johnslat · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 6:53 pm Post subject:

I saw the Globetrotters play in the Boston Garden a few times back in the 50s:

This guy was phenomenal:

As the "Clown Prince" of the Harlem Globetrotters for 24 seasons, Meadowlark Lemon played in more than 7,500 consecutive games for the red, white, and blue. He played before popes, kings, queens and presidents in more than 94 countries around the world and in more than 1,500 North American cities.

In April 1952, the Globetrotters received a letter from Lemon requesting a tryout. He was given a look, and after serving two years in the Army, was signed to a contract. Lemon played his first season with one of the Globetrotter developmental teams, the Kansas City Stars. He played his first season full season with the Globetrotters in 1954.

Lemon was enshrined into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003, three years after receiving the John W. Bunn Award, named in honor of the Hall of Fame's first executive director, recognizing outstanding lifetime contributions to basketball.

A native of Wilmington, N.C., Lemon received his Globetrotters “Legends” Ring and had his jersey (#36) retired as part of a 75th Anniversary black tie charity fund-raiser on Jan. 5, 2001, at Chicago's Fairmont Hotel. "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REVTDO8JsZM

Regards,
John

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

I don't suppose you managed to see Dem Bums as well, John?

santi84 · Joined: 14 Mar 2008 Posts: 1317 Location: under da sea

johnslat · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2014 8:52 pm Post subject:

Dear grahamb,

Here's a game I saw at Braves Field - Wow, the stars on the field at that one: Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese, Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges, Duke Snider and Carl Erskine pitching for Dem Bums and Johnny Logan, Eddie Mathews, Earl Torgeson, Sam Jethroe, and the great Warren Spahn pitching for the Braves.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BSN/BSN195209200.shtml

Regards,
John

kyivkyiv · Joined: 08 Aug 2014 Posts: 17 Location: Kiev, Ukraine

Thank you for your responses thus far.

It seems that people are saying that Saudi universities place no value on the DELTA as they are academically orientated while British run enterprises do value the DELTA. This is exactly the type of feedback I was looking for.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Outside a small coterie of Empire Loyalists and devotees of the Queen's English, no one knows or cares about DELTA.

I have now sacrificed my chance of getting an OBE in the New Year's Honours from Mrs Mountbatten.

nomad soul · Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world

kyivkyiv · Joined: 08 Aug 2014 Posts: 17 Location: Kiev, Ukraine

The good news is that I've been accepted to a MEd. in TESOL program. Now I have to find a way to fund it Confused

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

Scot47, you don't really want a bauble from Mrs Saxe-Coburg Gotha, do you? Our rightful monarch may be more obliging!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz,_Duke_of_Bavaria

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

I'm envious, John. Did you ever see the Beatles as well?

johnslat · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2014 1:20 am Post subject:

I'm afraid not - I was otherwise engaged. Smile

However, I did see The Moody Blues, The Who, Aerosmith, The Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd at Boston Garden in the 70s.

Regards,
John

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

grahamb · Joined: 30 Apr 2003 Posts: 1945

Most impressive, John... but were you at Waynestock? Wink