Heaven must have needed someone to shoot a technical. Dr. Tom Amberry, a man who achieved a small bit of fame for his uncanny ability to make free throws, died on March 18, according to the Associated ...

A unique figure in the Long Beach sports landscape passed away March 18, as retired podiatrist and world free throw champion Tom Amberry died at the age of 94, of natural causes. Amberry opened his ...

The Long Beach sports landscape lost a unique figure March 18, as retired podiatrist and world free throw champion Dr. Tom Amberry died of natural causes. He was 94. Amberry opened his own podiatry ...

It took 12 hours and 2,750 shots for Dr. Tom Amberry, a 71-year-old retired California podiatrist, to set the world record for free throws consecutively shot and made. Over and over, 10 bored ...

Nov. 12—Before he was known to late-night TV audiences as the "Big Kahuna of Free Throws," Tom Amberry was a lanky kid from Grand Forks who could barely squeeze into a school desk. At 6-foot-7, "Lanky ...