Nobody Knows Nate Thurmond, 1973

[The name Wells Twombly may no longer register for many sports enthusiasts. But back in the 1970s, Wells Twombly was all the rage in the Bay Area for his erudite, 1,000-word columns in the San Francisco Examiner that called out the bad sports and hailed the good ones. Twombly wrote, and the Bay Area consumed his elegant prose, discussed it, dissected it…