He's led the Pacers stat crew from Day One of the franchise. Before Day One, really. He was there for the original call-out for talent, when guys came in off the street to try to earn a professional basketball contract and kept stats for the scrimmages.

He stayed with the Pacers well into their move to the fieldhouse, directing a group that grew along with the technology. In the early years he sat courtside and typed running play-by-play on a typewriter, then ran it off along with box scores from a mimeograph machine in a makeshift press room at the Fairgrounds Coliseum. In later years he mostly stayed in a back room at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, printing out the stats from a computer.

He also ran the stat crews for the Colts and the Indianapolis 500. He always had control of every situation, always kept a sense of humor and therefore was always a pleasure to see.

He moved to Tennessee in 2021 to be closer to his daughter and passed away in August of 2024.

First aired 2013

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