Lou Bender
Deceased Person
1910 – 2009
Who was Lou Bender?
Louis "Lulu" Bender was an American basketball player who helped turn the sport into a popular success in New York City during the Great Depression and helped make Madison Square Garden a destination for the sport. Bender was a three-time All-Ivy League and two-time All-America in the early 1930s while attending Columbia University. After graduating from Columbia, Bender barnstormed with the Original Celtics and later played for a number of professional teams in the American Basketball League, the first true professional league and a predecessor of the National Basketball Association.
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- Born
- Mar 8, 1910
United States of America - Education
- Columbia University
- Columbia Law School
- Died
- Sep 10, 2009
Longboat Key
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on July 23, 2013
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