Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minneapolis Lakers' rookie star Elgin Baylor (TIME, Jan. 19) had previously run into the peculiar brand of hospitality the South reserves for Negroes. Last November in Charlotte, N.C., he and the Boston Celtics' Bill Russell, along with five other Negro players, had been barred from a downtown hotel. Baylor vowed then he would not play again in any city where he was segregated from his fellow players. Last week in Charleston, W. Va., Baylor made good on his promise...
...until he cradles the ball in his huge hands does the poker-faced Negro come alive. Then, graceful and cunning as a cougar, Elgin Baylor begins to roam for the Minneapolis Lakers. His hands flicker with the slick skill of a shell-game operator. His dribble is a rapid rat-a-tattoo inches off the floor. Smoothly, surely, Baylor prowls through the elbowing surge under the hoop to nail a Laker with a pinpoint pass, or rises from the floor as though projected to loop a lazy shot through the basket...
BOSTON, Jan. 5--The Boston Celtics couldn't halt Minneapolis rookie Elgin Baylor but had the team supremacy to rally for a 118-106 National Basketball Assn. victory over the Lakers tonight. Baylor poured in 30 points...
High men for Minneapolis were Elgin Baylor with 28 points and Dick Garmaker who scored 24 before fouling out in the fourth period. It was the Lakers' fifth straight triumph...
Four on One? Robertson is the best player in college basketball today. As a sophomore last season, the "Big O" beat out such stars as Seattle's Elgin Baylor and Kansas' Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain for national scoring honors, made 984 points (average: 35.14 a game), was named Player of the Year. This year he is better still...