LONG BEACH, Calif. -- A California podiatrist who made history when he shot 2,750 consecutive free throws has died. He was 94. Dr. Tom Amberry died in Long Beach on March 18, said his granddaughter, ...
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 Tom” ...