Detroit's Leon The Barber, 1976

[When the Fort Wayne Pistons in the 1950s relocated to Detroit, pro basketball arrived with a thud. “The citizens of Detroit could have cared less if we were in town,” recalled coach Charley Eckman. In a city that loved its Lions and Tigers and Red Hawks, oh my, were the Pistons bad. Fred Zollner, the franchise’s aging, long-time owner, wintered in Miam…