Excerpt From My Article In Bounce Magazine

On August 21, 2008, in Basic, History, by Claude Johnson

The NBA has no current players from Toledo, Ohio. But during a single decade that began in the early 1930s, Toledo produced a ridiculous pool of professional ball players unmatched by any other city since.

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