He won gold medal with Lithuania national basketball team during the EuroBasket 1939, held in Kaunas.

Born in the United States as Michael Paul Rutzgis, around 1938 he moved to Kaunas, Lithuania and became CJSO (Lithuanian: Centrinė Jaunalietuvių Sporto Organizacija) basketball team member and player.

Around 1940 Ruzgys returned to the United States and was forced to leave his pregnant wife Danutė in Lithuania.

On Monday June 1, 1953, Bazan won the Regions Federation Cup in Valladolid by defeating Español de Valencia 43-30.

"Players of juvenile and junior basketball teams [and] many fans gave the Ferrol sportsmen an affectionate and cordial welcome home" at a transfer railway station forty-one kilometers away from the city.

A short note in the newspaper La Voz de Galicia of June 9, 1954, summed up the extraordinary season thus, "Our unreserved applause for Ruzgis [sic] and those sportsmen he so skilfully trains."...

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