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The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the Bonneville Salt Flats, and Zelmo Beaty, 1971

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Jul 20, 2021
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[The ABA is remembered today for raiding NBA veterans. Less well-remembered is the raids came in waves. The first wave famously beached Rick Barry of the NBA San Francisco Warriors. The ABA needed Barry’s star power to lend instant credibility to a not-so-credible league. But Barry was a test case to determine whether the ABA could legally get away with…

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