Eugene "Big Daddy" Lipscomb

(Sports Illustrated) - All day long, from 10 in the morning until 10 at night, the line of mourners stood four abreast along Madison Avenue in Baltimore . They had come from all over, thousands of them—black and white, young and old, men and women and children—and at times they reached such numbers that the line from the mean streets to the open steel-gray coffin extended more than two blocks. So many people, so many mournful faces. Cheek by jowl, for 12 hours, they filed into old Charlie Law's funeral home. In one door and out another. In one mood and out another. In one era and out another.In all his years Lenny Moore had never witnessed a spectacle quite like it. "It was overwhelming," recalls the Baltimore Colts ' Hall of Fame running back. "You'd have thought it was a big movie star in there. Or a head of state. Biggest thing I ever saw like that in this town." Continued

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