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Chuck Taylor (salesman)

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287:. Taylor's free basketball clinics continued for nearly thirty years in high school and college gyms and YMCAs around the United States. As Steve Stone, a former Converse president, once noted: "Chuck's gimmick was to go to a small town, romance the coach, and put on a clinic. He would teach basketball and work with the local sporting goods dealer, but without encroaching on the coach's own system." In addition to the clinics, Taylor toured with the Converse All-Star basketball team, traveled the country to meet with customers in sporting goods shops, and made numerous publicity appearances, including playing with local teams. 230:
changing the design of the Converse All Star shoe to provide enhanced flexibility and support. The restyled shoe also included a distinctive star-shape logo on the patch that protected the ankle. After Taylor's signature was added to the All Star logo on the patch of the shoes, they became known as Chuck Taylor All Stars.
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when Taylor visited the company's offices in Chicago. The previous year the company had introduced an earlier version of Converse All Stars as one of the first shoes specifically designed to be worn when playing basketball. Within a year of Taylor's arrival the company had adopted his suggestions of
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Taylor's greatest legacy is the iconic Converse All Star shoe that he helped to improve and tirelessly promoted for nearly four decades. Most American basketball players wore Chuck Taylor All Stars between the mid-1920s and the 1970s. Converse All Stars were also the official basketball shoe of the
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As a marketing representative for Converse, Taylor made his living as a salesman who traveled across the country to conduct basketball clinics and sell shoes. For many years he lived year-round in motels, driving around the United States with a trunk full of shoe samples. Abraham Aamidor, a Taylor
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In addition to selling Converse All Star shoes and conducting basketball clinics, Taylor contributed to the development of the sport in other ways. In 1935 he invented a "stitchless" basketball that was easier to control. Taylor also promoted basketball internationally. When basketball became an
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Taylor made his debut as a semi-professional basketball player on March 19, 1919, playing for the Columbus Commercials when he was seventeen years old. (Taylor played as a substitute for another of the team's players during the final three minutes of the game, but he scored no points.) After the
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In 1917, while Taylor was still in high school, Converse began manufacturing one of the first basketball shoes. At least one source indicates that in 1918 Taylor wore Converse Non-Skids, the canvas and rubber shoe that was the forerunner to the Converse All Stars.
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Olympic games from 1936 until 1968. By the 1960s Converse had captured about 70 to 80 percent of the basketball shoe market before the company's sales declined. Beginning in the 1980s Converse All Stars enjoyed a comeback in popularity as casual footwear.
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Air-Tecs basketball team during the 1944–45 season and served as a physical fitness instructor for the U.S. military before resuming his career as a traveling salesman for Converse. Taylor retired from work in 1968. He was inducted into the
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biographer, also points out that Taylor was not sparing in his use of the Converse expense account. Converse listed Taylor's address as the offices of its regional headquarters in downtown Chicago, and later its offices in
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basketball shoes. Taylor traveled the country providing local basketball clinics, making special appearances, and meeting with customers in local sporting goods stores to promote the company's basketball shoes. During
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Taylor began his career as a semi-professional basketball player in 1919 and as the player-manager for the Converse All-Stars basketball team in the mid-1920s, but he became widely known as a salesman and promoter of
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warehouse to store and exchange seasonal clothing items. Converse paid Taylor a salary, but he received no commission for any of the 600 million pairs of Chuck Taylor shoes that have been sold.
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in 1936, he designed a white high-top model with blue and red trim for the 1936 Olympic Games. The Converse All Star shoe remained the official shoe of the Olympics team from 1936 to 1968.
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With one notable exception, Taylor's career as a player on a semi-professional team ended in the 1920s in Chicago when he became a traveling salesman and product promoter for the
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Columbus Commercials disbanded the following season, Taylor continued to pursue a career in professional basketball, which included playing for the
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were soon doing calisthenics while wearing Chuck Taylor All Stars, which had become the "official" basketball shoe of the U.S. armed forces.
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In 1950 Taylor moved to Los Angeles, California. He also continued to travel to military bases and in 1957 made a trip to
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acquired Converse in 2003 and continues to market Chuck Taylor All Star shoes in mass merchandise outlets worldwide.
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The basketball clinic was Taylor's main method of promoting basketball. He led his first informal clinic in 1922 at
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Joe Dean, who worked as a sales executive for Converse for nearly 30 years before becoming the athletic director at
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In 1921 S. R. "Bob" Pletz, an avid sportsman, hired Taylor as a salesman for the
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American basketball player and sport shoe salesman (1901–1969)
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as some have claimed. Taylor did not clarify the assertions.
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on the school's basketball team. He became captain of the
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Taylor married Lucille Kimbrell on December 11, 1962, in
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Aamidor, Abe (March 14, 2001). "Time Out for Chucks".
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Another of Taylor's promotional tools was the annual
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Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees
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Brown County, Indiana
Port Charlotte, Florida
Chuck Taylor All-Stars
basketball
salesman
marketer
Chuck Taylor All-Stars
Brown County, Indiana
Columbus, Indiana
guard position
varsity team
sophomore
Converse All Star
World War II
Wright Field
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Akron Firestone Non-Skids
Detroit
Michigan
Chicago
Illinois
Buffalo Germans
Original Celtics
Converse Rubber Shoe Company
Converse Rubber Shoe Company
Melrose Park, Illinois
Chicago
Louisiana State University
The Philadelphia Inquirer
North Carolina State University

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