Forrest Hamilton

Forrest "Fog" Clyde Hamilton (June 16, 1930 – October 7, 2021) was an American basketball player who was a star player for the University of Missouri in its back-to-back national championship appearances in 1952 and 1953, also serving as an alternate for the United States at the 1952 Summer Olympics, and on the gold medal-winning 1954 FIBA World Championship tournament team.

[2] He was chosen in the sixth round of the 1953 NBA draft by the New York Knicks.

In later life he became a sales professional for the Chase Bag Company in St. Louis, Missouri.

After this marriage ended, he married Joan Francine Merlo, with whom he moved to Louisville, Kentucky, for his employer, and had another son.

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