Los Angeles Lakers (Basketball team)
Organization
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Jerry West Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3884
Overview
Papers of basketball icon Jerry West and research papers of author Jonathan Coleman for his collaboration on the autobiography of West. Jerry West, born in Chelyan, West Virginia in 1938, played basketball for West Virginia University (WVU) and rose to fame as a player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA) before turning to basketball coaching and management. The collection includes materials that West loaned to Coleman for use in co-authoring the book ...
Dates:
1938-2016, undated; Majority of material found within 1950-2011