The 'Hoopster Of The Week'
for this week
goes to:
the Big Black Guy, 5-8, 160, who was the
very first Black Man to play Professional
Basketball from 1902 (age 18) to 1905
starting with the Pawtucketville Athletic
Club of the New England Basketball
League, with some success, but the
league folded in 1905, then he formed
his own team for a while, then after that, he
coached at Lowell Textiles starting in
1922, making him the first Black Man
to coach an integrated college basketball
team in the U.S., but he has yet to get
into the Hall of Fame, which needs to be done,
and he did so much more...
Black Baseball History Month was
founded by Ralph Winge, D.D.S.
in 2025 to commemorate, place value,
and get to know, our Heroes, while
standing and cheering for, the many
International Black Men who 'Shocked
and Awed' us with too many to count,
fantastic and unexpected physical
heroics at the Ballpark, in exciting
efforts for their teams to cross home
plate more than their opponents to win.
The Founder of Black Baseball History Month,
Ralph Winge, D.D.S.,
and elucidator of elatus labialis wingeulus.
If you know a Hoopster who should be included here,
please leave a note in the comment section. Thank you!
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