A unique figure in the Long Beach sports landscape passed away March 18, as retired podiatrist and world free throw champion Tom Amberry died at the age of 94, of natural causes. Amberry opened his ...

Heaven must have needed someone to shoot a technical. Dr. Tom Amberry, a man who achieved a small bit of fame for his uncanny ability to make free throws, died on March 18, according to the Associated ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- A California podiatrist who made history when he shot 2,750 consecutive free throws has died. He was 94. Dr. Tom Amberry died in Long Beach on March 18, said his granddaughter, ...

The Long Beach sports landscape lost a unique figure March 18, as retired podiatrist and world free throw champion Dr. Tom Amberry died of natural causes. He was 94. Amberry opened his own podiatry ...

A couple of years ago, when Clint Amberry missed a free throw, his first thought would be, “What will my grandfather say?” His grandfather is Dr. Tom Amberry. In 1993, Clint’s grandfather put his name ...

It took 12 hours and 2,750 shots for Dr. Tom Amberry, a 71-year-old retired California podiatrist, to set the world record for free throws consecutively shot and made. Over and over, 10 bored ...

Nov. 12—Before he was known to late-night TV audiences as the "Big Kahuna of Free Throws," Tom Amberry was a lanky kid from Grand Forks who could barely squeeze into a school desk. At 6-foot-7, "Lanky ...

Before Trout manned center and before Spiezio hit his World Series homer; before Ryan threw bullets and Fregosi and Knoop ever turned 2; before the team played a single game – Tom Amberry was an ...

'I could have made more — a lot more,' Amberry said about that record day in 1993. 'But they were closing the gym, so they kicked me out' You can save this article by registering for free here. Or ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- A California podiatrist who made history when he shot 2,750 consecutive free throws has died. He was 94. Dr. Tom Amberry died in Long Beach on March 18, said his granddaughter, ...

When Tom Amberry swished in his 2,750th consecutive free throw, there were all of 10 people watching history being made. For 12 hours in a small rec center gym in Orange County, the retired Long Beach ...