1961 Hank Luisetti Hand Signed/4x6 HOF Envelope - Genuine, w/insert🔥WOW!

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Hank Luisetti
Hand Signed James Naismith First Day of Issue Basketball HOF envelope, insert and stamp.
Also included is the official
insert that came with this
item at the time of purchase.
Signed by the Legendary Hank Luisetti in Bold Blue Ink
Hank Luisetti
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Angelo-Giuseppi
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"Hank" Luisetti
(June 16, 1916 – December 17, 2002) was an American college men's
basketball
player. He is considered to be one of the great innovators of the sport. In an era that featured the traditional two-handed
set shot
, Luisetti developed the running one-handed shot, an early version of the
jump shot
. Equipped with such an offensive weapon, Luisetti became one of the most dominant players in American
college basketball
history. While at Stanford, he joined
Delta Kappa Epsilon
fraternity.
He became the first player to score 50 points in a game on January 1, 1938, against
Duquesne
. Luisetti was named the second-best player of the mid-century (behind
George Mikan
) by an Associated Press poll of sportswriters and broadcasters in 1950.
Luisetti's influence was aided by a celebrated game between
Long Island University
and Luisetti's
Stanford Indians
. Long Island had a 43-game winning streak at the time of the game. The game was played in the evening of December 30, 1936, in
Madison Square Garden
and a crowd of 17,623 was on hand to see Long Island, the nation's No. 1 team, play Stanford.
Stanford was the defending
Pacific Coast Conference
champion from the 1935 season and six years later would win an NCAA championship. Still, they were underdogs. The crowd, while not expecting to see their local favorites lose, were intrigued by Luisetti, then a 6-foot-2, 185-pound sophomore. They knew that he shot the ball with one hand while he hung in the air, in stark contrast to the two-handed set shots or hook shots that were commonly attempted in those days.
Although Luisetti scored only 15 points on five field goals and five free throws, Stanford ended the LIU winning streak with a 45-31 victory. The fact that this occurred in the media capital of the country, however, resulted in something more far-reaching. The publicity surrounding Luisetti's shooting style changed the game forever.
Luisetti is often credited with inventing the
jump shot
, although others were doing it during the 1930s as well. One possible originator was
John Miller Cooper
.
[3]
Still, Luisetti definitely popularized it.
Hank Luisetti
Personal information
Born
June 16, 1916
San Francisco, California
Died
December 17, 2002 (aged 86)
San Mateo, California
Nationality
American
Listed height
6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Listed weight
185 lb (84 kg)
Career information
High school
Galileo
(San Francisco, California)
College
Stanford
(1935–1938)
Position
Forward
Number
7
Career highlights and awards
2×
AAU All-American
(1941, 1942)
2×
Helms Player of the Year
(1937, 1938)
3× Consensus first-team
All-American
(
1936
–
1938
)
2×
NCAA Division I scoring leader
(1936, 1937)
3× First-team
All-PCC
(1936–1938)
Basketball Hall of Fame as player
College Basketball Hall of Fame
Inducted in 2006
Certified by W. M. Miller Co.
Please note that I also have at this same time on auction the same item signed by Adolph Rupp. This item was certified genuine by James Spence Authentication (JSA) I did not see the need to have each one certified which would only increase the opening bid price by .
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Super Nice. Will be shipped with all the items shown in scan.
Scope and Content
This collection consists of an envelope with the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Official First Day Cover printed on the left side, and a $.04 Naismith 1861-1961 postage stamp on the right.  Hand Signed by Hank Luisetti. The envelope was cancelled on November 6, 1961, in Springfield, MA.  Enclosed in the envelope is a (insert) with a description of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, which is located on the Springfield College campus.
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