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Man. You would think that the WBA, of all folks, would know that Tex Rickard died January 6, 1929, not in 1931. :sad: (He died of poisoning from a gangrenous appendix. Althought he had emergency surgery to remove the appendix, apparently the poison was too much.)

http://www.wbaonline.com/wba/History/WBAhistory.htm

Well, the NBA was created in NYC in January 1921, not Rhode Island so, as always with non-comntemporanous statements of history -- be careful!