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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

What's it going to be then? Pioneers? Roses? Otters? Potheads?

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Ross Andru is hugely underrated.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Big George was a helluva player.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

For someone to get an automatic permanent ban they had to bet on a game they were an active participant in. It's worded that way to include managers and umpires in addition to the players.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

That George Mikan was pretty good, wasn't he?

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I've seen a few Avengers vs. Nefaria and Avengers vs. Ultron commissions, but surprisingly few Avengers vs. Kang commissions by Byrne. These are what I consider to be the three big "home grown" avengers villains. You could also throw in the Grim Reaper, Korvac and the Collector, I suppose.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Byrne admitted on his message board that Shooter wasn't happy with the last page and got Cockrum to redo it (he also did a lot of covers at that time) and Byrne admits that Cockrum's page worked better for what Shooter wanted.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

And the last page of issue 164 is actually Cockrum. Here's Byrne's page that went unused.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Still a great read - Shooter and Byrne at their best.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Fourteenth Amendment Section 1 "...nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Person. How can there be any confusion about this?

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

They're not eliminated yet. One more Dallas win or Phoenix loss will take care of that though.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

For the first two of the BAA's three years the NBL was clearly the better league.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I like how the early logos were on their stomachs.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

since 1982-83. So no Bill Russell, No Wilt, no Jerry West, missing half of Kareem's career.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Post-Wilt obviously. He lead in total points, rebounds or assists 19 times.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Wilt led in total field goals 7 times, total points 7 times, total minutes 8 times and total rebounds 11 times.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Should have used this for Pi day yeasterday! (Pizza pie being my favorite!)

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Artis is one of those forgotten greats.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Naming them "Packers" was a questionable move considering the Bears' main rivals were the Green Bay Packers.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

That looks more like a Chicago Packers jersey. They were the blue & orange Packers for a year before becoming the blue & gold Zephyrs in 1962.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

And of course, the best issue in the bunch -

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Wilson was a solid artist. To me he was "The Marvel Two-in-One Guy."

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Too bad they didn't get Bob Dandridge and Gail Goodrich and coaches Bill Sharman and Larry Costello in that shot. That would have made it nine.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Starting at what date? I don't see any Oscar Robertson.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

They scheduled a lot of back-to-backs in the same city to cut travel expenses too.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

As in East plays only East (and New York) and West plays only West (and New York)? I'm curious as to why Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, St. Louis and St. Paul all dropped out at such a late date. I suppose the majority went as a group?

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Is this part of the tenative schedule that included Minneapolis, St. Paul and St. Louis and had the league split into two divisions?

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Here's a picture of the shelves to the right of my desk as they are today. BALLS OF CONFUSION will go on there somewhere. I should probably find something else for all the space that the BASEBALL AMERICA books take up - I only use the most recent editions.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

This isn't a recent picture, but you get the idea!

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Marie Severin was a true pioneer in the industry!

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The award began in 1979-80 and they only awarded one for the entire league until 2001-02.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I enjoyed the Buck Williams one today, he was a favorite.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

He missed 8 minutes that entire season because he was ejected from one game for fighting. Otherwise he averaged 48.5 minutes a game (he played 99.79% of the minutes in 1961-62!). All while traveling by train, bus and "puddle jumper" airplane. So much for "load management."

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

I was really disappointed that the Suns didn't get Williams when the Blazers did (in 1989). He was always a rugged, dependable rebounder and defender who could also score and was a great leader.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

(2) Wilt's ability to play at such a high level for 48 minutes a night is the possibly most impressive thing.

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Part of it was because Wilt played 48 minutes a game. He scored 37.4 points per 36 minutes. Other noteable career highs - Embiid 37.2, Jordan 37.1, Harden 35.4, Bryant 35.4, Antetokounmpo 34.9, Westbrook 32.9, Gervin 32.6, Doncic 32.5, Lillard 32.2, Curry 32.0, King 31.6, Barry 31.5, Beal 31.5

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Robert Bradley @librarybob.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Here are the highest combined scoring totals that Wilt had with a teammate that I could find - 2Mar62 - 117 points - Chamberlain 100, Attles 17 13Jan62 - 99 points - Chamberlain 73, Arizin 26 8Dec61 - 97 points - Chamberlain 78, Arizin 19

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