CHUCK CONNORS is one of only 13 athletes in the history of American professional sports to have played both Major League Baseball (Chicago Cubs, 1951) & in the National Basketball Association (Boston Celtics 1947–48).
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That boy should stand a little further away.
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My Dad was offered the part in The Rifleman, because it's loosely based on his character in From Hell To Texas. He had to turn it down because he was under contract at Fox...
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I never knew that. Most interesting!
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Dad practiced The Rifleman's shooting style in the film, spinning his rifle to rapidly cycle the action with one hand through a technique called "spin-cocking". A Rifleman producer saw him practicing and wanted to hire him on the spot, but it didn't work out.
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This cover is subliminal obscene’
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And probably the only one to have hugged Leonid Brezhnev.
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Mornin’ wood
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