* Yep! It’s Another Special Edition…See the thing about Special Editions is you can have as many as you want, see…well, what I mean is…alright, forget about it. Let’s get on with it. Here’s your last Special Edition Top 10 of the Year. It’s the Top Ten Achieving Greatness Pittsburgh City League All-Sports Hall of Fame Induction things you missed because you thought it wasn’t going to be all that. Well somebody told you wrong!!!
#10—Over 300 fantastic big time City League folks filled the room. Had a blast. Ate and drank good and put the City League on front street again. Like I said, the City League shows up! (Standing room only mannn!)
#9—40 awardees. Ten (10) Willie Stargell MVP awardees…all showed up! Ten Connie Hawkins League Hall of Famers…nine showed up! Twenty Inaugural City League Hall of Fame Inductees…19 showed up! NOW – THAT’S – WHAT – I – CALL – A – PARTY!!!
#8—The number one male and female City League vote getters — Sam Clancy and Jennifer Bruce, were fantastic and set the evening in motion big time.
#7—You could hear a pin drop in the crowded room as Eddie Jefferies, aka “The President of the Know It All Club” was surprised and shocked at the Life Time Achievement Award he received along with honorary City League Hall of Fame Induction for his 30 plus years of writing the City League history for the Pittsburgh Council.
#6—Morrie “Skylab” Cox reminding the room…it’s not how high you jump when you dunk, it’s who you dunk on that matters!
#5—The beauty of the female City League awardees, including the Hollywood world class look of Cindy Dallas who flew in from L.A. for the ceremony.
#4—True to form, the legendary Ricky “Black Magic” Coleman delivered another pass right on the money as he put his life, the City League and the players on the mountaintop where they belong.
#3—Proud recognition of several elder statesmen. Luther Sewell, Sala Udin, Iftikhar Malik and Judge Dwayne Woodruff.
#2—The honor of having the legend’s legends in the room, the great Orin Richburg, out of Westinghouse High and the great Hubie Baymut out of Penn Hills High, not only two of the best out of Western Pa., but two of the all-time best in the nation.
#1—“Rockin Ron” Carter, Perry All-City basketball star, VMI All-American and Hall of Famer, drafted by the L.A. Lakers and worked in the Clinton administration reminding the sold out audience that we are the village that must use all this power and success to continue to raise our children so that one day they can be standing here being immortalized.
SPECIAL NOTE: The only news service that showed up to cover this historic event was the Pittsburgh Courier and WTAE-TV. As a City Leaguer, you should be furious and call every other service in this city and ask why they weren’t there to cover this historic event on a night when there was no emergency news to be covered.
~ GAME OVER ~
