Don Goldstein
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Donald Goldstein (1937 – May 27, 2022[2]), known as "Red", was an American college All-American and Pan American Games champion basketball player.[1]
Early life
Goldstein was Jewish.Flatbush's Samuel J. Tilden High School, where he was an all-city basketball player and graduated in 1955.[1]
College and Pan American Games
He attended the
forward for the school from 1956 to 1959.[3] He was 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m), and 190 pounds (86 kg).[1][4] He said: "these guys never saw a Jew. They once asked me once with no malice how old I was when they cut off my horns. I never had a bad day [with my teammates]. I never heard one anti-Semitic remark in Louisville. If you could play, that was it."[1]
In 1959, Goldstein was named
NCAA Final Four.[4] Goldstein averaged 21.4 points and 10.0 rebounds in the NCAA tournament, and was named to the All-Mideast Regional Team and the All-Tournament Team.[1][4]
That same year, he and his team won a gold medal in basketball at the 1959 Pan American Games.[4]
In his three years at Louisville, Goldstein scored 1,019 points (the 10th Cardinal to score over 1,000 points) and had 838 rebounds (still 10th all-time in school history).[4]
Draft and later life
Goldstein was the first pick in the second round (8th overall) of the
NBA.[4] Instead, he went to dental school, and was a dentist on Long Island.[4] He lived in Boca Raton, Florida.[5]
Honors
In 1980, he was inducted into the Louisville Hall of Fame.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "From Drilling Shots To Drilling Teeth". Archived from the original on August 13, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
- ^ Donald Red Goldstein
- ^ "Don Goldstein Bio – GoCards.com – Official Website of University of Louisville Athletics". Archived from the original on September 15, 2014. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Welcome to Jews In Sports Online". www.jewsinsports.org.
- ^ a b "Schwartz: National Jewish Sports Hall Of Fame Welcomes Its 2014 Class « CBS New York". September 12, 2014. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
- ^ "Cardinals Honor Four Former Men's Basketball Stars – GoCards.com – Official Website of University of Louisville Athletics". Retrieved September 18, 2014.
- ^ "National Jewish Hall of Fame holds induction ceremony – Newsday". Newsday. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
