Basketball Player Carl Meinhold has died
He was not on the list.
Carl was born on March 29, 1926 and passed away on Saturday, February 23, 2019.
Carl was a resident of Pennsylvania at the time of passing. A 6'2" guard/forward from Long Island University, Meinhold played two seasons (1947–1949) in the Basketball Association of America as a member of the Baltimore Bullets, Providence Steamrollers and Chicago Stags, He averaged 5.3 points per game in his BAA career and won a league championship with Baltimore in 1948. In 1953-54 he played for the Washington Generals, a team which toured with (and generally lost to) the Harlem Globetrotters. Meinhold was named to the all-league first team while playing for the Berwick Carbuilders of the Eastern Professional Basketball League in 1954.
Meinhold attended Hazleton High School in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, where in 1944 he led the team to a Pennsylvania state title, scoring 25 points in the finals.
To this day, Meinhold remains the only Hazleton High graduate to play in the top pro league in the nation. Meinhold and his hook shot immediately caught the fancy of the pro fans. He was voted the most popular player on the team and contributed to the success of the Bullets. He concluded his BAA career with the Chicago franchise by making his own decision to retire from pro basketball on a national level. Meinhold returned to his hometown and continued to play pro basketball. He was a standout with Scranton’s American Basketball League franchise coached by Bernie Sarachek and he also served as a player-coach for Hazleton and Berwick in the Eastern League in addition to playing for Wilkes-Bane in the Eastern League. He was consistently among the leading players in the American and Eastern Leagues. In a community that has produced many outstanding basketball players, Meinhold is rated one of the best ever. Meinhold and his wife, the former Shirley Tait of Hazleton, have five children and one grandchild. He is an executive with the Boscov Department Store chain and they live in Reading.
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