Air-Ball, Slam-Dunk

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:10 AM -0400 8/23/02, Rick H Kennerly wrote:
>In passing, news obit attributes them to Francis (Chick) Hearn, who was the
>LA Lakers basketball team play-by-play announcer for over 40 years
>(beginning in the 1960 when they were in Minnesota).
>
Some did; a bunch of others (most of the stories and obits I read)
just credit him with "popularizing" the terms, which is surely
correct.  I don't know what the evidence would be for his inventing
the terms, and I suspect the popularization claim is more on target.

Larry