 20040617 Fort Wayne Pistons
I am a relentless Fort Wayne, Indiana trivia hoarder, mostly because I find my hometown to be so spectaculary bland that any slight deviation becomes completely priceless to me.
So, as I watched the final minutes of what would be the final game of this year's NBA championship game between the Detriot Pistons and the LA Lakers, I waited for the announcer to quip something about the Piston's humble beginnings in Fort Wayne and how they had actually reached the NBA championships as the Fort Wayne Pistons twice, in 1955 and 1956. I glowed with pride. I was even more excited to see this mentioning in today's New York Post. SportsEncyclopedia.com had an interesting paragraph: Automobile-piston magnate Fred Zollner launched the club in a the National Basketball League and christened it the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons. The Pistons were not the only team named after auto parts in the NBL as they were joined by the Akron Firestone Non-Skids, Akron Goodyear Wingfoots, and Toledo Jim White Chevrolets. 5
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Nick said... Zach, check out http://radio.weblogs.com/0111718/2004/06/16.html#a175 !!! 6:58 PM said... i live in a little town called evansville, in and i pee on your pathetic town of fort wayne and yes i am to lazy to punctuate properly 5:01 AM Zach said... Dear Anon, Let's not slay each other with slings and arrows! Let us not compare our villages, but rather stand tall as brothers in the greatest state, the Hoosier Republic! 12:58 PM said... Being a fellow Fort Wayner, I am glad you made this blog. We do need more people to talk about Fort Wayne it self. 12:14 PM said... Why not talk about Ft. Wayne? That is what this site is all about; this city is rich with history.Evansville had a CBA Team for Christs' sake. Do your history search you f-ing moron. 11:22 PM Post a Comment |
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt   Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |