1950s High School Yearbook BILL BRADLEY ~ New York Knicks 1970 & 1973 NBA Champ!

Description: rookie, 10 9 8, card, poster, hall of fame, topps, bowman, randy v, dollar bill, crystal city high school, crystal city mo, wa, betty sue flowers, ernestine schlant, lt frazier, dave debusshere, Allen & Company LL McKinsey Global Institute, raydiance, quinstreet, donorschoose, acumen fund, , bill bonthron, 1959 High School Annual with great photographs and text about the students and faculty, activities and sports, humor and candids, and local ads. The keystone of this annual is the inclusion of then tall athletic teenager and future college and professional basketball star and New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley who appears in 12 pictures. Beautiful condition, wonderful photos and vintage design, from a very small school with a total of 84 graduates. Bill Bradley is an American Hall of Fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former three-term Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey who ran President in the 2000 election. He was a member of the Boy Scouts, and did well academically and was an all-county and all-state basketball player in high school. He was offered 75 college scholarships, but declined them all to attend Princeton University. He earned a gold medal as a member of the 1964 Olympic basketball team and was the NCAA Player of the Year in 1965. After graduating in 1965, he attended Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. While at Oxford, Bradley played one season of professional basketball in Europe, before joining the New York Knicks in 1967, after serving six months in the Air Force Reserve. He spent his entire ten-year professional basketball career playing for the Knicks, winning two championship titles (his jersey #24 is retired by the Knicks). In 1977, he ran for a seat in the United States Senate the following year, from his adopted home state of New Jersey. He is the author of seven non-fiction books, most recently We Can All Do Better, and hosts a weekly radio show, American Voices, on Sirius Satellite Radio. He is a corporate director of Starbucks and a partner at investment bank Allen & Company in New York City. In 2008 Bradley was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. He appears in Basketball, Track, and Baseball, as well as on Student Council, Dramatics Club, and playing French Horn (Is there anything this guy cannot do?). At Princeton: Bradley's childhood hero was Princeton Heisman Trophy winner Dick Kazmaier and he wore #42 in his honor. In his freshman year, Bradley averaged more than 30 points per game, and at one point making 57 consecutive free throws. The following year, he was a varsity starter in Butch van Breda Kolff's first year as coach of the Tigers. In his sophomore year Bradley went for 40 points in a game against St. Joseph's and was named to The Sporting News All-American first team in early 1963. The coach of the St. Louis Hawks believed he was ready to play in the NBA. The AP and United Press International polls both put Bradley as the top sophomore player in the country; That year Bradley also hit .316 as a first baseman for the Tigers baseball team. The following year The Sporting News named him to its All-American team as its only junior and as its player of the year. At the 1964 Olympic basketball trials in 1964, Bradley played guard instead of his usual forward position and was one of three chosen unanimously for the Olympic team, the youngest chosen, and the only undergraduate. The Olympic team won the gold medal. As a senior and team captain in the 1964–1965 season, Bradley became a household name and was called the best amateur basketball player in the United States, leading Princeton to the Final Four after defeating heavy favorite Providence by 40 points. In the semis Bradley scored a record 58 points to lead the team to victory against Wichita State and earn himself the Final Four MVP. In total, Bradley scored 2,503 points at Princeton, averaging 30.2 points per game, was awarded the 1965 James E. Sullivan Award, presented annually to the United States' top amateur athlete, the first basketball player to win the honor. Bradley holds a number of Ivy League career records, including total and average points (1,253/29.83, respectively), and free throws made (409/468, 87.4%). Other records include total and average points (464/33.14, 1964) and most free throws made (153 in 170 attempts, 90.0%, 1962–1963). He also holds the career point record at Princeton and many other school records, including the top ten slots in the category of total points scored in a game. Some individually photographed schoolmates includes: robert albano, carol allard, donald armbuster, paul aubuchon, gloria bates, joy baker, gary gentsen, jack barton, terry biehle, bill bryant, bonnie cady, marcella buckner, john carter, edwin burris, delores carver, larry church, sue daugherty, ronnie clarkson, paul de geare, joyce compton, mary lou drury, judy farmer, jean glasgow, james gallagher, shirley gurlin, cynthia gerber, walter havard, larry hedgecorth, kathry hunt, susan herbst, barbara joggerst, joann hickam, larry johns, wanda johnson, margaret lashley, james johnston, gloria leitterman, rita jones, judy lindley, eddie lowe, neil mall, patricia lucas, donna martin, mariana magre, carol mcclanahan, janet mcgraw, sharon murphy, william mooney, gerald naes, paul morris, jo ann noce, jacqueline oberle, darlene palmer, tom orphan, charles patterson, lloyd ott, timothy patterson, thomas perry, penny pouliezos, anthony popovsky, anna pruneau, frances porchey, james pruneau, vicky pruneau, darlene richards, randall revoir, janet boegner, rosalyn rhodes, mary roussin, rebecca roussin, anna mae scott, orville sago, dona self, kay schwartz, sunny shoults, natalie slaughter, michael smith, alberta smart, paul sparling, hugh smith, judith stadler, james sucher, paul vaccaro, lowell thurman, dale vinyard, dorothy trunk, rosemary visnoske, joyce wadlow, toni weidenbenner, kenneth wagner, ria whiteside, walter walton, john whitmire, glen winnigar, dixie wolk, karen zahner, .... Great rarity giving a true look at the early life and times of the 2-time NBA Champion, College Player of the Year, and United States Senator. Excellent condition hardcover with tight binding and text and clean pages; with no must or mildew or missing pieces. Solid. Here's a wonderful issue giving a true historic view at one of basketballs alltime greats! Thank you for stopping by! Spanky's Archive, over 8000 Ebay positive feedback and 30 years in business.

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