Bobby McDermott: Blast from the Distant Past

[Drop the name Bobby McDermott on anybody who knows his or her early pro basketball history, and the likely response will be, “McDermott was the Babe Ruth of pro basketball in the 1930s and 1940s.” Some can even point you to newspaper articles and quotes that detail McDermott’s illustrious past. Like this late-1930s quote from Tom Meaney, then a nationa…