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Charles Hollis Taylor (June 24, 1901 – June 23, 1969) was an American basketball player and basketball shoe salesman / marketer who was associated with Chuck Taylor All-Stars, which he helped to improve and promote.
Chuck Taylor (far right) was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor to the sport in 1969. He died later that year. Millions of people around the world...
Chuck Taylor All-Stars or Converse All Stars (also referred to as " Converse ", " Chuck Taylors ", " Chucks ", " Cons ", " All Stars ", and " Chucky Ts ") are sneakers manufactured by American fashion brand Converse (a subsidiary of Nike, Inc. since 2003). Initially developed as a basketball shoe in the early 20th century, its design has ...
August 8, 2016. Chuck Taylor All Star, circa 1957 Converse. It was 1936, and the United States men’s basketball team stepped onto the rain-soaked outdoor courts sporting bright white Converse...
Chuck Taylor is known as the force behind the Converse All-Star’s early popularity, but contrary to folklore, he was not known for being a superstar basketball player. His basketball career was short-lived and not nearly as glamorous as it has been made out to be.
Charles H. "Chuck" Taylor. In the summer of 1921, Chuck Taylor hobbled into a Chicago Converse sales office complaining of sore feet and persuaded executives to create a shoe especially for basketball.
Charles Hollis Taylor was born on July 24, 1901, and raised in southern Indiana. Basketball—the brand-new sport invented by James Naismith in 1891—was beginning to take the Hoosier State by...
When Chuck Taylor, who was born in rural southern Indiana in 1901, left home at age 17 to play professional basketball, he was following an unlikely dream. The game of basketball—invented by James Naismith, a YMCA physical fitness instructor in Massachusetts in 1891—was still a minor sport in America.
In 1921, Converse hired a former athlete to help sell its shoes — Charles “Chuck” Taylor, a pre-World War I high school basketball star who later barnstormed with several teams, including the Original Celtics and the Akron Firestones.
So around 1921 Chuck Taylor, the basketball player, walks into the offices of Converse Rubber Shoe Company with ideas of how to make the shoe better. He cold called them. He walked in with no appointment. But, based on the ideas he presented them, they hired him as a shoe consultant.