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Walt Hazzard: ‘Rook’ as in Rookie, 1965

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Sep 30, 2021
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[More from Los Angeles Times columnist extraordinaire Jim Murray. In this mid-January 1965 gem, Murray pokes fun mostly at Lakers’ Walt Hazzard to document the travails of the “most-despised of God’s creatures—the rookie.” Holy hydrocollator!] 

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Los Angeles—Walter Raphael Hazzard, Jr. in his fur-collared greatcoat, his dashing Parisian beret, cuff lin…

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