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03-27-2023, 01:10 PM
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1948 Topps Magic Photo Ralph Beard (basketball)
I picked this up for $5.58 because it's a basketball player. Then I read Ralph Beard was banned from the NBA because of a college point shaving scandal in 1951?
CCNY point shaving scandal In October 1951, authorities charged him along with his former teammates Alex Groza and Dale Barnstable with taking bribes as part of the 1951 NCAA point shaving scandal. They pleaded guilty and received suspended sentences but the NBA Commissioner Maurice Podoloff banned all three for life from the NBA. Beard admitted that he took $700 but denied that he had ever shaved points in a game He claimed that Frank Hogan, the New York district attorney, conspired with Podoloff of the NBA and Cardinal Francis Spellman, the Archbishop of New York to go after Midwestern players in an effort to protect players at Catholic colleges. (these cards are the size of a postage stamp)
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