Abe as Abe

By Frank Fitzpatrick

Inquirer Staff Writer

 

If the 76ers' management had done a little more homework before it hired Roy Rubin in 1972-73, it might have had second thoughts.

 

That's because the little-known coach who guided the 76ers to a 4-47 record before getting fired had just six weeks earlier coproduced a Broadway flop that featured a piece of casting almost as unlikely as his own in Philadelphia: 

 

Abe Vigoda as Abe Lincoln.

 

 

full at http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/87745187.html

 

 

 

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