Frank Thomas

Notable Sports Figures
Awards and Achievements
1991 Named Mr. Basketball for State of Michigan and National High
School Player of the Year
1992 Big 10 Freshman of the Year
1992-93 Named National Collegiate Athletic Association All-Tournament
Team
1993 First Team All Big 10 and First Team All American; selected
first overall in National Basketball Association draft by the
Orlando Magic
1994 Rookie of the Year and All Rookie First Team
1997, NBA All Star
2000-02
1999 Led NBA in rebounds (13.0 per game); named Second Team
All NBA
2002 Named Second Team All NBA
Deveney, Sean. “A ‘Desperate’ Man.” Sporting News
(March 11, 2002): 20+.
Deveney, Sean. “Now is No Time for Webber to Leave
Kings.” Sporting News (July 9, 2001): 50.
“NBA Star Chris Webber Arrested.” Jet (February 9,
1998): 51-52.
Ribowsky, Mark. “King Leery.” Sport (February 2000):
28.
Sabino, David. “A Whole New Rap.” Sports Illustrated
(April 12, 1999): 42.
Schoenfeld, Bruce. “Getting a Read on Chris Webber.”
Sporting News (January 24, 1994): 36.
Taylor, Phil. “Beating the Blues.” Sports Illustrated
(April 19, 1993): 54.
Taylor, Phil. “Capital Gain.” Sports Illustrated (November
28, 1994): 16.
Other
“Chris Webber.” National Basketball Association. http://
www.nba.com/ (December 11, 2002)
“Chris Webber.” Sports Stats.com. http://www.
sportsstats.com/bball/national/players/1990/Chris_
Webber/ (December 11, 2002)
Dick Weber
1929-
American bowler
Sketch by Kari Bethel
Legendary professional bowler Dick Weber made
bowling history in 2002 when he became the first
bowler ever to win at least one Professional Bowlers Association
(PBA) title in six consecutive decades. Weber,
Dick Weber
Weber
who won his first PBA title in 1959, grabbed his first
title of the new millennium by winning the PBA Senior
Regional Championship at New North Lanes in Taylorville,
Illinois, on January 20, 2002. For his contributions
to the world of pro bowling, Weber was inducted
into the American Bowling Congress (ABC) Hall of
Fame in 1970 and the PBA Hall of Fame in 1975. Weber
ranks sixth on the PBA’s all-time win list with twentysix
PBA Tour titles, and he’s still going strong. Strong
enough, in fact, to challenge his son, Pete Weber, a PBA
Hall of Famer in his own right. With the younger
Weber’s induction into the PBA Hall of Fame in 1998,
Dick and Pete Weber became the only father-and-son inductees.
The Webers also became the only father-andson
inductees in the ABC Hall of Fame when Pete was
inducted in 2002.
Born in Indianapolis
He was born Richard Anthony Weber in Indianapolis,
Indiana, on December 23, 1929. The son of Carl John
and Marjorie Amelia (Dunn) Weber, he began bowling
while still a boy. After finishing school, Weber took a job
as a postal clerk in Indianapolis but bowled whenever he
could. He entered his first American Bowling Congress
(ABC) tournament in 1948. Of that first tournament,
Weber years later told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that
“the ABC I remember the most is my first one in Detroit
in 1948. I had never been there before, and walking out
to the lanes was a thrill.” That same year he married
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