Phil Smith: 51 Reasons to Believe, 1976

[Growing up in the early 1970s, I attended a summer basketball camp in San Jose. I found it advertised in the back of a basketball magazine. Today, I have zero recall of who sponsored the camp, how I scrounged the money to pay for it, who drove me the two-plus hours to San Jose, or even sleeping in an unfamiliar dorm room. 

But I recall vividly a laid-ba…