Basketball great Bill Russell (Reply #44)

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Thu Sep 19, 2019, 01:52 AM

44. Basketball great Bill Russell

and I went to an exhibit at the Seattle Art Museum many years ago.

Well, we didn't go together, but I noticed that he was in line behind me as we walked past the paintings. The exhibit was paintings by Jacob Lawrence. Lawrence was considered to be one of America's best artists and one of my favorite artists.

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Ok.....what's your claim to fame with a sports figure?? [View all]	a kennedy	Sep 2019	OP
I played golf with Jack Nicklaus.	TruckFump	Sep 2019	#1
I went to his high school.	unblock	Sep 2019	#12
Dallas Green coached my Babe Ruth team	randr	Sep 2019	#2
I love Bill Walton.......	a kennedy	Sep 2019	#5
I rode in an elevator	bmbmd	Sep 2019	#3
I rode in an elevator with Arnold Schwarzenegger a few times.	luvs2sing	Sep 2019	#6
Ha ha.....so body building is a sport eh??	a kennedy	Sep 2019	#8
Apparently..	luvs2sing	Sep 2019	#11
I knew several Bengals players..	luvs2sing	Sep 2019	#4
Ok, I'm intrigued.	Dagstead Bumwood	Sep 2019	#62
Late 70s folks..	luvs2sing	Sep 2019	#63
I went to see the movie about Jackie Robinson.	wasupaloopa	Sep 2019	#7
Good for you for making his day......	a kennedy	Sep 2019	#9
I bought bowling trophies for my junior league from Don Mincher.	House of Roberts	Sep 2019	#10
Speaking of Bowling	ProfessorGAC	Sep 2019	#60
We never missed watching the PBA finals on Saturdays.	House of Roberts	Sep 2019	#61
He Was A Superb Golfer, Too	ProfessorGAC	Sep 2019	#67
My husband has the best claim to fame.	luvs2sing	Sep 2019	#13
This is so sad......being murdered.	a kennedy	Sep 2019	#15
my ex had one- he went to high school w	mopinko	Sep 2019	#14
Played in a couple of pick-up	safeinOhio	Sep 2019	#16
Um, does it count that Joe Namath tried to pick me up at the airport...	Guilded Lilly	Sep 2019	#17
and he's married to my almost favorite female tennis player....	a kennedy	Sep 2019	#18
I do wonder about their kids--	dawg day	Sep 2019	#36
I've read that Jaden (their son) prefers baseball (heh).	Guilded Lilly	Sep 2019	#40
Sigh. These kids.	dawg day	Sep 2019	#43
Russ Hodges signed my Jack Purcell tennis shoe at a little league game	Brother Buzz	Sep 2019	#19
and sorry can you explain who Russ Hodges is......i don't know him.	a kennedy	Sep 2019	#20
Baseball Hall of Fame Sportscaster for the Giants, first in NY then in SF	Brother Buzz	Sep 2019	#21
I knocked out Joe Frazier	SCantiGOP	Sep 2019	#22
I remember that!	OilemFirchen	Sep 2019	#24
Not mine, but my mom's.	OilemFirchen	Sep 2019	#23
Larry the Legend!	dawg day	Sep 2019	#35
Met Kerri Strug, gymnast at a Target store in Tucson early 2000s, just said Hi and congrats	Baked Potato	Sep 2019	#25
Grampa Munster. Heheh..	sprinkleeninow	Sep 2019	#42
I taught Drew Gooden, Gilbert Brown, and Dana Stubblefield. nt	tblue37	Sep 2019	#26
Taught them what?	dawg day	Sep 2019	#34
Brown & Stubblefield: three classes of English. The third class was "Introduction to Poetry."	tblue37	Sep 2019	#49
1991 Trailblazers..	Permanut	Sep 2019	#27
Mickey Mantle signed base ball	pangaia	Sep 2019	#28
I played junior high sports against John Elway. He wasn't a threat at all in football, but was the	brewens	Sep 2019	#29
LOL. Too bad for MLB	dawg day	Sep 2019	#33
One thing was that we didn't have baseball until the 9th grade. Elway was playing on his	brewens	Sep 2019	#52
Lou Piniella back in the 70's. He took a longish look my way. 😍	sprinkleeninow	Sep 2019	#30
They all count (heh)!	Guilded Lilly	Sep 2019	#41
The Big O (Oscar Robertson) ate dinner with me--	dawg day	Sep 2019	#31
I shook hands with Jessie Owens,	RGinNJ	Sep 2019	#32
I worked for the team Dr for the Tulsa Drillers and took care of Sammy Sosa a few times.	Runningdawg	Sep 2019	#37
My first wife went out with Paul Hornung- Packers running back	redstateblues	Sep 2019	#38
My favourite ballerina came into a store where i worked. I was too shy to say	applegrove	Sep 2019	#39
Basketball great Bill Russell	FuzzyRabbit	Sep 2019	#44
As a young teen, Sensei George Harris 9th Dan	yonder	Sep 2019	#45
My granddad was best friends with Hugh Bedient.	Buzz cook	Sep 2019	#46
Dinner w/David Robinson & neighbor of Jack Clark	Justitia	Sep 2019	#47
Larry Bird mowed the grass @ a bank my husband worked at.	Justitia	Sep 2019	#48
I was working in Omaha,	kozar	Sep 2019	#50
The Golden Jet	Cartoonist	Sep 2019	#51
Harry Caray	snowybirdie	Sep 2019	#53
Autographs from the entire "Big Red Machine" in the 70's including Pete Rose	underpants	Sep 2019	#54
My grandmother was a cousin of Anita Aldrich	nitpicker	Sep 2019	#55
My sister dated Jim Jensen - a third string QB for the Dolphins.	Scurrilous	Sep 2019	#56
Worked with Nate Thurmond, Ronnie Lott,	Auggie	Sep 2019	#57
Chris Dishman came to the pool at my grandma's apartment complex growing up.	JonLP24	Sep 2019	#58
A Few	ProfessorGAC	Sep 2019	#59
Being a huge Miami Hurricanes fan...	twogunsid	Sep 2019	#64
That IS why I love ya Sid.....	a kennedy	Sep 2019	#65
I taught several athletes while I was a grad student at the University of Georgia	GaYellowDawg	Sep 2019	#66

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