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About Hazel Walker
Hazel Leona Walker was an amateur basketball player in the 1930s and 1940s. She is recognized as one of the greatest amateur basketball players of the era. Walker led her college team to the 1934 AAU National Championship, and earned All-American honors. She played professionally for the All American Red Heads, then left that organization to start her own barnstorming professional basketball team, the Arkansas Travelers. This team played for sixteen seasons against men's teams winning over 80% of their games. Walker was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001.
Everything about Hazel Walker →- Occupation
- basketball player, bookkeeper
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 8, 1914
- Died
- December 18, 1990