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The Life Of Red Klotz, Illustrious Loser To The Harlem Globetrotters

As a basketball coach, Red Klotz had one job — to lose. And he did it well. As a player, coach and general manager of a team usually known as the Washington Generals, he lost countless times to the Harlem Globetrotters. Klotz died Saturday at age 93, and John Ferrari, his colleague and son-in-law, has this remembrance.

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