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Washington's Capital Caps

bobkuska
Jun 10, 2021
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[In the late 1ate 1940s, a teen-aged kid named Elgin Baylor won a free-throw shooting contest at his Washington, D.C. junior high school. Baylor’s prize: Tickets to an upcoming Washington Capitols game. The Capitols, a.k.a., the Caps, played downtown at Uline Arena, which Jerry West later described in his book Mr. Clutch as “the single worst court I've …

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