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Maurice Stokes (June 17, 1933 – April 6, 1970) was an American professional basketball player in the 1950s for the Cincinnati/Rochester Royals of the National Basketball Association (NBA) until his career — and later his life — was cut short by a debilitating injury.
Stokes was born in Rankin, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh, one of four children — he had a twin sister and two brothers. His father worked in a steel mill and his mother was a domestic. When Maurice was age 8, the family moved to nearby Homewood, where he later attended Westinghouse High School. Stokes did not start his first two years at Westinghouse, but in his last two years, he helped lead the Bulldogs to back-to-back city championships in 1950 and 1951.
Stokes attended and graduated from Saint Francis College in Loretto, Pennsylvania. There he led the Red Flash to the 1955 National Invitation Tournament and was named Most Valuable Player although his team finished fourth in the tournament. Stokes remains St. Francis' all-time leading rebounder with 1,819 and is second in scoring with 2,282 points. The Red Flash were 79-30 during Stokes' four seasons. He was later inducted in the St. Francis University Athletic Hall of Fame.
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Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport,Their eyes for many centuries
Peered in from space
Sincere the hope, their wise believed
They could teach our race
But yet on Mars, a darker side
Like all things that God made
The tribe of war would heed them not
"EARTH THEY MUST INVADE"
The fire in the skies
Them devastate the land
The warlord chief commands
The humans fight and die
Our planet laid to waste
Monsters invade the earth from space
It was then in our darkest hour
When everything seemed lost
The hearts of men would not concede
No matter what the cost
They forged a sword of sound and steel
Upon the Martian doors
The voice of God would thunder there
And "MARS WOULD BE NO MORE!"
The Martian cities fall
The death of the warrior tribe
Now their planet won't survive
Their world turn into ash
The terror on their face
"MARS EXPLODES" cast out as rubble into space