Pearson Gave Children Chance to Play

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Besides being present or former Dayton-area athletes, Anthony Corbett, Ray Springer, Chris Wright, Keith Byars, Jamie Skelton, Richard "Tu Tu" Brown, Roy Roundtree, Mike Shaw, Brandon Moore and a host of others have one thing in common: They all played in the Dayton Mohawks age-group basketball program.

The Mohawks began in Dayton in 1974 at the home of Troy Pearson, then a revenue officer in the collection department of the Treasury Department of the Internal Revenue Service. Pearson, now 76 and retired, started the Mohawks because he knew that inner-city kids had no place to play basketball in the winter.

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Pearson Gave Children Chance to Play

So he founded a mom-and-pop operation that grew into an outfit that hosted age-group tournaments for up to...

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