The Undertaker Said

[janduscframe]

"Look up in the sky, it's a bird, no, it's a plane, no, gulp, it issss a plane and it's going to crashland in that cornfield near my house!!!!

The team plane was returning from a game in St Louis... The owner of the team and plane later went into baseball. Name him.

Among the players was a future sports Hall of Famer. Name him

Another member of the team was playing his last season and was about to switch sports and embark on a major league baseball career that would last over a decade. Name him

[stejay]

Is the player in his last season, Ron Reed. The hall of famer was Dave Bing. The guy who owned the plane I don't know.

[Utter Chaos]

Owner = Bob Short
HOF = Elgin Baylor
Future MLB = Steve Hamilton

On January 18, 1960 the Minneapolis Lakers plane had to make an emergency landing in an Iowa cornfield during an ice storm.

http://stewthornley.net/mplslakers_plane.html

[stejay]

Where on earth did you get that from?

[janduscframe]

Utter, you're toooooooooooo good. :bowdown::bowdown:

[stejay]

Who on earth was going to get that one right?

[janduscframe]

Ok Utter, Name the ex Cardinal that attempted and failed to buy the following NBA franchises
Syracuse Nationals
Rochester Royals
Minneapolis Lakers

stejay, he won't get this one.... or will he????

[Utter Chaos]

Ok Utter, Name the ex Cardinal that attempted and failed to buy the following NBA franchises
Syracuse Nationals
Rochester Royals
Minneapolis Lakers

stejay, he won't get this one.... or will he????

That one I don't know. If I had to throw out a guess I'll go with Bill Hallahan.

I found the answer to the airplane question by doing a google search. The article I found didn't include Steve Hamilton so I looked up the Lakers roster from 1960 and recognized his name as a baseball player.

[soberdennis]

I remember Hamilton. I know he was a tall lanky guy. But I had forgotten that he had played basketball. I know I had heard it somewhere though.

[janduscframe]

Sober, You're honing in.. He was a tall lanky Cardinal.

[janduscframe]

Marty Marion...He and his partner actually had their offer accepted by the Lakers, contingent on no one locally stepping forward to buy them. That's when George Mikan opened up his wallet. That X amount of thousands of dollars would have turned into over 5 million when the Lakers were sold again a few years later.

[soberdennis]

Sober, You're honing in.. He was a tall lanky Cardinal.

I am not sure what you mean. There was only one Steve Hamilton that played MLB according to Baseball Almanac. He is the one I remember. What Yankee fan can forget the Folly Floater.

http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=hamilst01

Now if you are referring to the question at hand, I guess I can say, sorry, but I was speaking to a post in this thread. I did not know the answer to the question until someone mentioned Marion.