Iowa town remembers
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 12:50 am
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=a ... &type=lgns
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP)—The first two cars the Minneapolis Lakers saw after landing in a snowy Iowa cornfield were a hearse and an ambulance. People dashed through a blinding blizzard, hoping to help and prepared for the worst.
It was early in the morning on Jan. 18, 1960, and the Lakers’ DC-3 airplane had just come down near the small western Iowa town of Carroll after a desperate search for a landing spot. The rumbling of the plane had awakened residents.
After a game against the Hawks, the Lakers took off from St. Louis in bad weather for the trip home to Minnesota. The team, led that year by a second-year star named Elgin Baylor and assists leader Hot Rod Hundley, had just lost its fourth straight game.
We all know the story of Sloan resigning at Evansville shortly after he took the job and avoiding that plane crash but I wasn't aware of this story involving another Jazz legend.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP)—The first two cars the Minneapolis Lakers saw after landing in a snowy Iowa cornfield were a hearse and an ambulance. People dashed through a blinding blizzard, hoping to help and prepared for the worst.
It was early in the morning on Jan. 18, 1960, and the Lakers’ DC-3 airplane had just come down near the small western Iowa town of Carroll after a desperate search for a landing spot. The rumbling of the plane had awakened residents.
After a game against the Hawks, the Lakers took off from St. Louis in bad weather for the trip home to Minnesota. The team, led that year by a second-year star named Elgin Baylor and assists leader Hot Rod Hundley, had just lost its fourth straight game.
We all know the story of Sloan resigning at Evansville shortly after he took the job and avoiding that plane crash but I wasn't aware of this story involving another Jazz legend.