FOUR BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME PROGRAMS, SIGNED BY 28 PLAYERS, COACHES AND TEAM OWNERS, INCLUDING CLYDE DREXLER, JAMES WORTHY, RICK BARRY, DOMINIQUE WILKINS, PHIL JACKSON, ROY WILLIAMS, AND TEN MEMBERS OF THE TEXAS WESTERN 1966 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM, THE FIRST NCAA CHAMPION WITH FIVE AFRICAN AMERICAN STARTERS.
(BASKETBALL) Five Basketball Hall of Fame programs. Springfield, Massachusetts: Naismith Basketball Memorial Hall of Fame, 2004-2007. Five volumes. Quarto, original stiff illustrated wrappers. $2200.
First editions of four programs from the Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremonies and one supplemental program, for the years 2004 to 2007, signed by 28 different players, coaches and team owners (some multiple times) and ten members of the Texas Western 1966 NCAA Championship team. Signers include Clyde Drexler, James Worthy, Rick Barry, Dominique Wilkins, Phil Jackson, Roy Williams.
The program for the 2004 ceremony has been signed by four of that year's inductees—Jerry Colangelo, Clyde Drexler, Bill Sharman and Lynette Woodard; it has additionally been signed by Earl Lloyd, Dave Bing, James Worthy, Bob Wanzer, Joan Crawford, Nate Archibald, Marques Haynes, Meadowlark Lemon, Nancy Lieberman and "Showtime" Gaffney. The program from 2005 is signed by inductees Jim Calhoun, Jim Boeheim, Hubie Brown and Horencia Marcari. The supplemental "Best of the Best" program has been signed by Arnie Risen, Marques Haynes, Rick Barry, Meadowlark Lemon and Joan Crawford. The 2006 program is signed by inductees Joe Dumars, David Gavitt and Dominique Wilkins and also by Marques Haynes, Earl Lloyd, Joan Crawford and Meadowlark Lemon. The 2007 program is signed by inductees Phil Jackson, Roy Williams, Mirko Novosel, Pedro Ferranidiz, Van Chancellor, Earl Lloyd and members of the Texas Western 1966 NCAA Championship team (Dick Myers, Togo Railey, Jerry Armstrong, Willie Cager, Willie Worsley, Louis Baudoin, David Lattin, Nevil Shed, Harry Flournoy, Eddie Mullins and one unidentified individual, along with the wife of deceased player Bobby Joe Hill). With related material laid in.
Minor edgewear to original wrappers. An excellent collection.