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Last Saturday 6-22 it would have been his 66th birthday here's footage of the man known in basketball lore as the boy with the sad eyes!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVnJeKX5 ... ata_player" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Best player in LSU history. On the short list of players who made Baton Rouge a basketball town.

tampajag wrote:Best player in LSU history. On the short list of players who made Baton Rouge a basketball town.

He singlehandedly made the SEC a powerhouse in D1 basketball.Long live the man known as "The boy with the sad eyes"!!!!He has been gone for 25 yrs 1-5-88!!! He is the only player to have a stadium named in his honor.He is the only white player ever asked to join the Harlem Globetrotters.

Pete was the epitome of a Gym Rat.

Pete playing horse with the Iceman
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCk7SjkSE4c[/youtube]

Guns kill people.

Gil Dobie wrote:Pete was the epitome of a Gym Rat.

Pete playing horse with the Iceman
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCk7SjkSE4c[/youtube]

Granted but don't forget dear old dad.His father Press Maravich had a ball in his hands by the time he could walk.He set up all types of ball handling exercises for him as a child to improve his ball handling skill.As a 8th grader he made his high school's varsity basketball squad in his hometown of Broughton,NC.Ppl don't know but Maravich was born in Aliquippa,Pa.