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Lot # 2375: Charles "Stretch" Murphy Basketball Hall of Fame Collection

Category: Basketball

Starting Bid: $400.00

Bids: 1 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "December 2004",
which ran from 12/18/2004 12:00 AM to
12/19/2004 9:00 PM



Collection of Basketball Hall of Fame memoribilia from inductee Charles Murphy. 1) Helms Hall of Fame Award honoring Murphy, "For Noteworthy Achievement, College Basketball". Elegantly matted and 20 x 14 1/2". The names of the board members of Helms Hall are listed including Grantland Rice, Sid Ziff and Paul Zimmerman. 2) Murphy's Certificate of Election to the Hall of Fame. 12 x 10" and reads, "Basketball Hall of Fame, Certificate of Election, Chas. "Stretch" Murphy, Purdue University '30". Date of election is April 26, 1960 and a photo of Murphy in his Perdue uniform is at the center of the mounted 12 x 10" Certificate of Election. 3) Two Hall of Fame re-union photos, framed and 8 x 10", from 1983 and 1987 showing Murphy with such basketball immortals as Nat Holman, Dean Smith, Bill Bradley, Oscar Robertson, Willis Reed, Pete Maravich, Rick Barry, John Havlicek, Bob Cousey, Walt Frazier, Red Holzman and many more. 4) Framed 8 x 10 of Murphy's 1926 Marion High School Giants who won the ISHAA Championship. Average condition is EX-MT to NRMT.

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