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<strong>Tom Meschery: Bard of the Backboards, 1969</strong>

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<strong>Tom Meschery: Bard of the Backboards, 1969</strong>

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Oct 21, 2022
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[And now, for something completely different. At least for this blog. What follows are 13 poems penned by the great player-bard Tom Meschery when he was pounding the backboards (and opposing forwards) with the Seattle SuperSonics. The poems appeared in the magazine Fast Break: 1969 All-Pro Basketball Annual.

Meschery said of the poems, all penned during …

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