Ode to a Rookie Referee in Two Takes, 1967

[I stumbled onto an article in my files from The Sporting News featuring Lou Moser. Ring a bell? Didn’t think so. Moser was a basketball ref in and around Wilmington, Del., during the mid-1960s. He caught the keen eye of Philadelphia’s Jack Ramsay, who passed Moser’s name up the NBA flagpole. The league needed a few good referees. 

Moser, a true basketba…