The Winning Team papers are filled with stories of the drinking problems of Alex. We are now taken to a baseball game where Alex fields a ball and basically throws it away to the first basemen. He is removed from the game.<br> Alex is next shown where drinking seems to be his new pastime. We see him as he stumbles down an alley and then falls as he reaches the end. he is removed from the cubs and sent to a team called the "House of David." All this time his wife is trying to find him because she lost track of where
The First Team that organization's inaugural 1959 induction class for their efforts in popularizing the sport and as the game's first practitioners. The following are recognized by the Basketball Hall of Fame as members of "The First Team": The First Team The First Team were the first players known to have played the sport of basketball, having been taught the game in 1891 by James Naismith, who is recognized as the inventor of the sport. The team comprised 18 players who were studying in Springfield, Massachusetts, to become executive secretaries of the YMCA and who, as part of their coursework, studied physical education