Bob Anderson

Robert Howard Anderson


Born:
February 15, 1928
Newark, NJ

Died:
July 23, 1983
San Francisco, CA


Career
1945-46 Panzer College - East Orange, NJ (College)
Fort Sam Houston (Military)
1948-49 Loyola University - Maryland (College)
1949-50 Loyola University - Maryland (College)
1950-51 Bridgeport Aer-A-Sols (ABL)
1950-51 Hartford Hurricanes (EBL-Ct)
1951-52 Bridgeport Reosslers (ABL)

Bob went to West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey, where he played football but never played basketball. He went to Panzer for a year before joining the U.S. Army in 1945. After his service, the 6'5, 195-pound athlete went to Loyola University in Baltimore. After graduating, he was drafted in the sixth round by the NBA's Tri-Cities team in 1950. Unable to make the team, Anderson played one game with Bridgeport in 1950-51. He signed with Carbondale January 23, 1951, but not sure if he ever played for them. Next year, he was back for one more run in Bridgeport.

Anderson would attend law school at Rutgers and in 1972 would move out west to Alamo, California. He worked worked as a stock broker at Dean Witter Reynolds, rising to Senior Vice President. In early 1983, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor and died that July at 55 years of age. He and his wife, Ginny, had five sons and a daughter.



Source:
Baltimore Sun, March 7, 1949

San Francisco Examiner, July 26, 1983

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