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Monday, July 14, 2008

A rock star and his team


The Sixers may have signed one extremely expensive player, but that guy has nothing on this local hoops team.
This photo, submitted by Jim Moore of North Wales, was taken in 1959.
Moore says the picture shows a basketball team from North Wales and Upper Gwynedd, and the boys are ages 11 through 13.
And there is a famous player in the group. According to Moore, No. 19 — the youngster shown front and center — is none other than John Oates, of the singing duo Hall & Oates.
The coach for the team was Andy Mazzanti, Moore noted, and the team was sponsored by Merck.
“Some of the names of the players in this photo that I remember are George Brower, Bob Milnes, Daryl Boorse, Russ Camburn, Nevin and Wayne Harper, Dick Holmes, Greg Lacher, Dave and Paul Robison, Tim Weigner, Faris Barnes, Jim Rittenhouse, Bob Mathe, George Gardiner, Dick Reiner, Phil Waldron, Walt Peifer, Tom Penn, Jim Moore, Dave Gerhart, George Arbic and Jim Mazzanti. Maybe some of the readers will recognize the rest,” Moore said.
Well, anyone?

1 Comments:

Blogger Lil Miller said...

Can anyone tell me the name of John's group while he was in High School. His first was the Avalons. I'm looking for the group that he played with at the Hustle Inn in Doylestown.

lil.miller@verizon.net

June 15, 2009 at 6:06 PM 

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