Dave Minor
Basketball Player
1922 – 1998
Who was Dave Minor?
Davage "Dave" Minor was a player in the National Basketball Association. He played with the Baltimore Bullets before being traded along with Stan Miasek to the Milwaukee Hawks for Don Boven, Pete Darcey and George McLeod. In 1947 - 1948, Minor was honored as an All-Conference guard basketball player at UCLA. His full name was Davage Minor, but Gary, Indiana sportswriters called him "The Wheelhorse of Steel City." He began shooting the first jumpers seen around the Great Lakes in December of 1937 in his high school gym in Gary. By 1941, the shot was so unstoppable he used it to take the Froebel High School Blue Devils all the way to the Final Four of the Indiana state tournament, the "mother of them all." Eventually, he starred with the old Oakland Bittners of the AAU, and he was one of the first blacks signed in the NBA. Minor died in 1998.
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- Born
- Feb 23, 1922
Missouri - Education
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Lived in
- Missouri
- Died
- Mar 14, 1998
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on July 23, 2013
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