Cincinnati's Hidden Sports History: East

1: Mount Auburn Recreation Center, 270 Avenue of the South. The center was the incubator of many of the best amateur fighters from Cincinnati, who transformed a relatively small city in one of the largest producers of Olympic boxers in the country. Among them is Ricardo Williams Jr., who won a silver medal at the Sydney Games in 2000.

2: The arrest of Frank Robinson, sixty second shop, 2010 Reading Road, near the intersection of reading and Florence Avenue. The Reds slugger, 25, was arrested on the night of February8, 1961, on a concealed weapons charge for brandishing a gun to the cook, who had made a threatening gesture to him while he was eating with two friends. Later, Robinson credited the experience with helping him mature and he won the National League MVP award and lead his team to the World Series.

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3: Walnut Hills High School, 2700 Ashland Ave, East Walnut Hills .. The Schoolhouse Lofts condominiums now occupy the site of Star Track DeHart Hubbard went to school and studied under a German coach.Hubbard became a world champion multiple discs and the first African American to win an individual Olympic gold medal in the long jump at the 1924 Paris Games. He also played basketball and baseball at Walnut Hills and later was general manager of the team from 1937 to Cincinnati Tigers Negro League.

4: Cincinnati Tennis Club, 1880 Dexter Avenue, East Walnut Hills .. Membership has been around since 1880, making it one of the oldest in the country, but the real place opened in 1899. Tony Trabert, who won five major tournaments and has held the No. 1 ranking, was a member.The club was the original site of what is now West and South Open ATP tournament, then called the Tennis Tri-State. CTC has received from 1903 to 1968, and winners include Beals Wright, Bill Tilden, Bobby Riggs, Bill Talbert and Trabert.

5: Owl's Nest Park, 1984 Madison Road, O'Bryonville. Purcell High School do not have a football field, but the team, including Roger Staubach quarter, practiced in the park. Staubach would win the Heisman Trophy with the Navy and a Hall of Fame NFL career.

6: King Records, 1540, Brewster Avenue, Evanston ..The label was launched in 1943 as a studio country music by Syd Nathan, who is well positioned to capture the rhythm and blues thriving market and contribute to land the prize basketball recruit of the Oscar Robertson University of Cincinnati. Every college in the country was, after Robertson, whose mother said the UC recruiter that her son was not for sale. But she also said the recruiter two things she shared with her son until many years later: She wanted to be on Ruth Lyons "50-50 Club" TV show, and she wanted a hearing music songs spiritual she had written. She received two desires, one at King.The day after the Robertsons visited Cincinnati - and Ms. Robertson had been in the TV show and got his hearing - Robertson, coach basketball UC school called the recruiter and asked, "What in the world that you done with this woman yesterday?. .. She just called and said, 'Look, I know you control my son, but I want to tell you that just go to the University of Cincinnati.

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