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4. Clarine Edwards, in discussion with the author, June 9, 2022; and Mario Gray, in discussion with the author, June 13, 2023.
5. Michael Stith, in discussion with the author, March 2, 2024.
6. Gray, discussion.
7. Clarine Edwards, discussion.
8. Arthur Pincus, “A.B.A. Is Stepping Up Search for Talent among Schoolboys,” New York Times, January 10, 1975.
9. “Moses Malone: From Scared Prep Player to Confident Pro.” Lakeland (FL) Ledger, March 30, 1975.
10. Ira Berkow, “A Force That Could Stop Malone,” New York Times, April 24, 1983.
11. George Campbell, in discussion with the author, September 7, 2023.
12. Deford, “Bounding.”
13. Moses Malone Jr., “My Dad Use To Tell Me Stories How When He Was A Youngster His Cousins & People Would Drive Past Him,” Facebook, January 23, 2021 (account and post deleted; no URL available).
14. Cynthia Kerns, in discussion with the author, April 24, 2023.
15. Deford, “Bounding.”
16. Clinton Bufford, in discussion with the author, June 26, 2022.
17. Roger Pegram, in discussion with the author, September 3, 2022.
18. Ray Didinger, “Moses Makes His Private Life Most Valuable,” Philadelphia Daily News, May 26, 1983.
19. Leroy Cole, in discussion with the author, June 20, 2022; and Patrick Kane, “Hangin’ with Mr. Hoopster,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), July 2, 2011.
20. Deford, “Bounding.”
21. Michael Parham, in discussion with the author, May 16, 2022.
22. Hal Miles, in discussion with the author, June 27, 2022.
23. Leroy Cole, discussion; and Kane, “Hangin’ with Mr. Hoopster.”
24. MacMullan, Bartholomew, and Klores, Basketball, 3.
25. David Pair, in discussion with the author, June 8, 2022.
26. Don Wall, in discussion with the author, July 22, 2022.
27. Phyllis Hawkins-Jones, in discussion with the author, November 9, 2022.
28. Linda McNatt, “Historic Community Center Finds New Life as an Urban Farm,” Lancaster Farming, last modified August 24, 2021, https://www.lancasterfarming.com/historic-community-center-finds-new-life-as-an-urban-farm/article_caaad187-a04c-5c29-97bc-2144f686f13d.html.
29. Pegram, discussion.
30. Moses Malone, “Playboy Interview: Moses Malone,” Playboy, March 1984, 50.
31. Roy S. Johnson, “Malone’s Dominance Grows,” New York Times, February 19, 1982.
32. Deford, “Bounding.”
33. Pair, discussion.
34. Leroy Cole, discussion.
35. Malone, “Playboy Interview,” 52.
36. James Jones, in discussion with the author, June 12, 2023; and Ricky Hunley, in discussion with the author, April 4, 2023.
37. Morris Fultz, in discussion with the author, June 5, 2023.
38. Ronald Robinson, in discussion with the author, May 3, 2022.
39. Fultz, discussion.
40. Didinger, “Moses Makes His.”
2. Chuck Taylor All-Stars
1. Bufford, discussion.
2. “1730–1985 Petersburg’s Tobacco Industry,” Historic Petersburg Foundation, n.d., http://www.historicpetersburg.org/1730-1985-petersburgs-tobacco-industry/.
3. Luther P. Jackson, “Free Negroes of Petersburg, Virginia,” Journal of Negro History 12, no. 3 (July 1927): 365–88, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2714105.
4. Clarence Alonzo Oliver, in discussion with the author, July 16, 2022.
5. “McKenney Library Sit-in,” Historic Petersburg Foundation, n.d., http://www.historicpetersburg.org/mckenney-library-sit-in/.
6. Joyce Chu, “‘Like Mary and Martha Entertaining Jesus’: Family Hosted Dr. King Whenever He Visited Petersburg,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), January 15, 2023.
7. Francine Cole, in discussion with the author, June 17, 2022.
8. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
9. Suan Smith-Richardson and Lauren Burke, “In the 1950s, Rather Than Integrate Its Public Schools, Virginia Closed Them,” The Guardian, November 27, 2021, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/27/integration-public-schools-massive-resistance-virginia-1950s.
10. Adolph H. Grundman, “Public School Desegregation in Virginia from 1954 to the Present” (diss., Wayne State University Dissertations, Paper 952, 1972), 250–51.
11. Fred Van Deventer, “NAACP Urges High School District Plan,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), February 25, 1969.
12. Harry Kollatz Jr., “Here Comes ‘The Judge,’” Richmond Magazine, May 20, 2018, https://richmondmagazine.com/news/sunday-story/here-comes-the-judge/.
13. “Peabody High School—the Earliest Publicly Funded High School for African Americans in Virginia,” Peabody High School Alumni Association, n.d., https://www.phsnaa.org/history/.
14. Gonzell Phillips, in discussion with the author, April 8, 2023.
15. Bettie Mitchell, “Peabody’s Fate Question,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), October 2, 1969.
16. Mitchell, “Peabody’s Fate.”
17. Cindy Minton, in discussion with the author, May 4, 2022.
18. Parham, discussion.
19. Fultz, discussion.
20. “Community, Former Students Pay Respects to ‘Pro’ Hayes,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), last modified September 9, 2014, https://www.progress-index.com/story/news/2010/05/26/community-former-students-pay-respects/36484694007/.
21. Bufford, discussion.
22. Bernard Wilson, in discussion with the author, April 6, 2023.
23. Mark Thompson, in discussion with the author, April 7, 2023.
24. Bufford, discussion.
25. Fultz, discussion; Bill Nunnally, in discussion with the author, April 19, 2023; and Phillips, discussion.
26. Steven Armstrong, “Peal Can Be Proud of His Former Star,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), October 6, 1974.
27. Harry Marsh, “Freshman Malone Supplies Height Petersburg Needed,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), February 25, 1971.
28. Jeff Cohane, “Height, Inexperience Petersburg Keynotes,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), December 3, 1971.
29. Harry Marsh, “Friend Paces All-Tri-City Team,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), March 5, 1972.
30. Wilson, discussion.
3. Visitors from the Moon
1. Miles, discussion.
2. Berkow, “A Force.”
3. Miles, discussion.
4. David E. Early, “Early Successes Haven’t Spoiled Malone,” Minneapolis Star, April 18, 1974.
5. Thomasine Bolling Hill, in discussion with the author, May 3, 2022.
6. Janice Davis, in discussion with the author, November 8, 2022.
7. Ollie Jarvis, in discussion with the author, April 5, 2023.
8. Nathan Dickerson, in discussion with the author, May 12, 2022; Nunnally, discussion; and Phillips, discussion.
9. Wilson, discussion.
10. Nunnally, discussion.
11. Miles, discussion.
12. Stanley Taylor, in discussion with the author, April 6, 2023; and Fultz, discussion.
13. Ronald Walker, in discussion with the author, April 22, 2023.
14. Ed Robinson, in discussion with the author, June 20, 2022.
15. Pair, discussion.
16. Wyatt Curtis, in discussion with the author, April 20, 2023.
17. Ed Gholson, in discussion with the author, May 17, 2022.
18. Ed Robinson, discussion.
19. “Carl Peal,” Story of the Virginia Interscholastic Association (website), July 28, 2020, https://viastory.org/hall-fame/carl-peal.
20. Phillips, discussion.
21. Amir Vera, “City Celebrates Malone’s Legacy,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), last modified January 7, 2016, https://www.progress-index.com/story/news/politics/county/2015/10/25/city-celebrates-malone-s-legacy/32782444007/.
22. Curtis, discussion.
23. Wilson, discussion.
24. Jimmy Williams, in discussion with the author, April 6, 2023.
25. Wilson, discussion.
26. Bill Littlepage, in discussion with the author, July 6, 2022.
27. Ronald Robinson, discussion.
28. Harry Marsh, “Noe Is Different,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), April 1, 1973.
29. Phillips, discussion.
30. Jimmy Williams, discussion.
31. Jimmy Williams, discussion.
32. Ronald Robinson, discussion.
33. Dan Richards, “Petersburg Blasts Hopewell in Division Final,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), February 25, 1973.
34. Adrian Sessum, in discussion with the author, June 23, 2022.
35. Ronald Robinson, discussion.
36. Dave Koesters, in discussion with the author, June 7, 2023.
37. Emily Jones, “Moses Malone and Halifax’s Brush with Fame,” SoVaNow (website), September 17, 2015, https://www.sovanow.com/articles/moses_malone_and_halifaxs_brush_with_fame/.
38. Deford, “Bounding.”
4. Five Stars
1. Scott Cacciola, “His Basketball Camp Made Hall of Famers. Now He’s One, Too,” New York Times, September 11, 2021.
2. Will Klein, in discussion with the author, September 8, 2022.
3. Michael Ryan, Five Star, 8.
4. Michael Ryan, Five Star, 7.
5. Vincent M. Mallozzi, “Howard Garfinkel, Who Discovered and Groomed Top Basketball Talent, Dies at 86,” New York Times, May 8, 2015.
6. Hubie Brown, in discussion with the author, May 24, 2022.
7. Tate Frazier, “Episode 1: The World According to Garf,” November 29, 2021, in The World of Five-Star, podcast, MP3 audio, 28:57, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-1-the-world-according-to-garf/id1584012030?i=1000543346224.
8. Klein, discussion.
9. Hubie Brown, discussion.
10. Klein, discussion.
11. Mallozzi, “Howard Garfunkel.”
12. Michael Ryan, Five Star.
13. Cacciola, “His Basketball Camp.”
14. Hubie Brown, discussion; and Mike Fratello, in discussion with the author, August 24, 2022.
15. Fratello, discussion.
16. Frazier, “World According to Garf.”
17. Malone, “Playboy Interview,” 52.
18. Fratello, discussion.
19. Tom McCorry, in discussion with the author, May19, 2022.
20. McCorry, discussion.
21. Marc Iavaroni, in discussion with the author, October 3, 2022.
22. Hubie Brown, discussion.
23. Klein, discussion.
24. McCorry, discussion.
25. Dick Vitale, in discussion with the author, November 2, 2022.
26. George Shirk, “Malone Lives by His Instincts,” Philadelphia Inquirer, February 13, 1983.
27. Tate Frazier, “Episode 2: The Three Discoveries: MJ, Moses and Muggsy,” November 29, 2021, in The World of Five-Star, podcast, MP3 audio, 34:46, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-2-the-three-discoveries-moses-mj-and-muggsy/id1584012030?i=1000543346268.
28. Malone, “Playboy Interview,” 52.
29. Klein, discussion.
30. Jerry Buterakos, in discussion with the author, September 20, 2023.
31. Campy Russell, in discussion with the author, September 14, 2023.
32. Benny White, in discussion with the author, July 14, 2022.
33. McMullen, Maryland Basketball, 52.
34. NBA.com, “75 Stories: Moses Malone,” n.d., video, 08:37, https://www.nba.com/watch/video/75-stories-moses-malone.
5. Lefty and the Milkman
1. Eddie Biedenbach, in discussion with the author, December 14, 2022.
2. Didinger, “Moses Makes His.”
3. Lefty Driesell, in discussion with the author, March 1, 2022.
4. Alan Goldstein, “Moses Malone: The Bullets’ Big Man Shoots for Revenge,” Basketball Digest, February 1987, 18, https://archive.org/details/sim_basketball-digest_1987-02_14_4/page/18/mode/2up?q=moses+malone.
5. Driesell, discussion.
6. Harmon, Charles “Lefty” Driesell, 38.
7. Joe Harrington, in discussion with the author, May 10, 2022.
8. Ungrady, Tales from Maryland Terrapins, 140.
9. Dan Steinberg, “Lefty Driesell on the Origins of ‘UCLA of the East,’” Washington Post, April 19, 2013, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2013/04/19/lefty-driesell-on-the-origins-of-ucla-of-the-east/.
10. Ungrady, Tales from Maryland Terrapins, 59.
11. McMullen, Maryland Basketball, 59.
12. Dave Kindred, “The Case for Lefty Driesell,” The Athletic, March 29, 2018, https://theathletic.com/167659/2018/03/29/the-case-for-lefty-driesell/?source=user_shared_article.
13. McMullen, Maryland Basketball, 59; and Lewis Bowling, “Lefty Time,” Go Duke, May 11, 2018, https://goduke.com/news/2018/5/11/211715511.aspx.
14. Billy Hahn, in discussion with the author, April 7, 2022.
15. “7 Rent-a-Cars in One Day a Pritchett Mark,” Washington Post, March 6, 1977.
16. Harrington, discussion.
17. Ken Denlinger, “Malone: His Day Is Here,” Washington Post, April 17, 1981.
18. Driesell, discussion.
19. Harrington, discussion.
20. Howard White, in discussion with the author, May 11, 2022.
21. “New Mexico Loses Malone,” Albuquerque Journal, June 21, 1974.
22. Harrington, discussion.
23. Pluto, Loose Balls, 324.
24. Bob Ibach, “Petersburg Revisited 110 Years Later,” Evening Sun (Baltimore), June 14, 1974.
25. George White, “They All Wanted Malone,” Houston Chronicle, December 14, 1976.
26. Mo Howard, in discussion with the author, September 6, 2023.
27. “Big Business of Sports Recruiting: A Crisis in the Colleges,” New York Times, March 10, 1974.
28. Bufford, discussion.
29. Didinger, “Moses Makes His.”
30. White, “They All Wanted Malone.”
31. Driesell, discussion.
32. Pair, discussion.
33. Kevin Sherrington, “Reticent Hall of Famer Moses Malone Helped Save Rockets from Oblivion,” Dallas Morning News, September 26, 2015.
34. “New Mexico Loses Malone,” Albuquerque Journal.
35. David E. Early, “Recruiting Pressures Pile Up on Star,” Minneapolis Star, April 19, 1974.
36. Pair, discussion; and Dickerson, discussion.
37. Pair, discussion.
38. Kindred, “The Case.”
39. Pat Putnam, “Don’t Send My Boy to Harvard . . . ,” Sports Illustrated, November 4, 1974, https://vault.si.com/vault/1974/11/04/dont-send-my-boy-to-harvard.
40. Pluto, Loose Balls, 323.
41. Bill Tanton, “Are Terps Losing Moses?” Evening Sun (Baltimore), April 25, 1974.
6. The Decision
1. Miles, discussion.
2. Minton, discussion.
3. Deford, “Bounding.”
4. Early, “Early Successes.”
5. Moyer, “How Moses ‘Mumbles’ Malone.”
6. “Malone & Co. Too Much for Manchester,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), December 13, 1973.
7. Didinger, One Last Read, 114.
8. Larry Clark, “Wave Sets Stage for Friday Showdown,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), January 12, 1974.
9. George Wyatt, “Malone Sets Tournament Records in Wave Victory,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), February 20, 1974.
