Moonfixer

By Earl Lloyd, Sean Kirst,

Book cover of Moonfixer: The Basketball Journey of Earl Lloyd

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In 1950, future Hall of Famer Earl Lloyd became the first African American to play in a National Basketball Association game. Nicknamed ""Moonfixer"" in college, Lloyd led West Virginia State to two CIAA Conference and Tournament Championships and was named All-American twice. One of three African Americans to enter theā€¦

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1 author picked Moonfixer as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I was on lunch break one day in 2010 walking through Union Station in DC when I saw a very tall, elderly Black man seated at a table in the B. Dalton bookstore with a stack of books in front of him.

I smiled at him and he back and me, and then the man with him said, ā€œDo you know who this is?ā€ I said no. The man said ā€œItā€™s Earl Lloyd, the first African American to play in the NBA.ā€ It occurred to me then, as it has many times since, that most Americans know about Jackie Robinsonā€¦

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