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Joe Strawder: No Guarantees, 1968

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Dec 23, 2022
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[In our last post, newspaper columnist Roy McHugh describes how in 1967 NBA veteran Chico Vaughn, underwhelmed by his new NBA team in San Diego, jumped to the ABA’s Pittsburgh Pipers instead. As McHugh wrote: 

“Chico called information and asked for the number of the Pittsburgh basketball team. He did not know that Pittsburgh was called the Pipers, but h…

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