急需一份关于活塞队的英文简介

活塞建队史 20 世纪 50 年代。

Detroit Pistons: 1950’s

“All season long, Major League Basketball will be presented. This is a clean, rugged sport, played by superbly developed athletes of intelligence. I hope that you’ll enjoy seeing these great stars playing under the modern rules (in the) ideal playing conditions at Olympia Stadium.”
- Fred Zollner, 1957

Those were the words of Pistons founder Fred Zollner to the people of Detroit when he moved his team, the Fort Wayne Pistons, to the Motor City in September 1957. Zollner began the Pistons in 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Having achieved great success and a huge fan following, Zollner decided to move the team to Detroit to better compete with teams in Philadelphia, Boston, and New York. The move made sense because as an automotive manufacturer, most of Zollner’s business took place in Detroit. His move, however, was not without risk.

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