From Greg Laemmle:
Robert Laemmle was an All-City basketball player at John Marshall High School in Los Feliz and went on to play college basketball for L.A. City College and L.A. State. He was recruited to play at Seattle University, where he would have been the power forward opposite one of the finest small forwards of all time, Elgin Baylor. Seattle's loss, however, ended up paying big dividends for L.A. moviegoers.
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Bob had no knowledge of this recent story from The Ankler and was amazed to hear of Carl Laemmle Jr.'s love of the game. And even before reading the story, Bob (who is almost 89-years old) asked if Sam Balter and Frank Lubin were on the team. In his later career as a broadcaster, Sam Balter interviewed my father and complimented him on how he played the game. And even if he was a generation older than Bob Laemmle, the two played together on Amateur Athletic Union teams in the late 1950s.