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Article: Basketball Star, Bullets Official Hyman Perlo
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- The Washington Post
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- April 27, 2006
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Hyman Perlo, 83, a standout Washington basketball player at the
dawn of World War II who became a community relations executive for
the Capital Centre and the Bullets basketball franchise, died April
26 at his home in Kensington. He had bladder cancer.
Though only 5 feet 10 inches tall and a master of the now-archaic
two-handed set shot, Mr. Perlo was among the District's most revered
athletes of the late 1930s and early '40s.
His skill as team member and captain of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough
Riders prompted Basketball Hall of Fame coach Red Auerbach, who
briefly coached at Roosevelt, to once recall him as "the greatest
high school player in his day."
Besides his many local honors, ...