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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tom Amberry, the Long Beach podiatrist who took up free-throw shooting as a hobby in retirement and ended up in the Guinness Book of World Records after making 2,750 consecutive shots in a Seal Beach ...

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 ...

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, ...

In this July 24, 2002, photo Dr. Tom Amberry shoots a free throw in Seal Beach, Calif. Amberry, a California podiatrist who made history in 1993 when he shot 2,750 consecutive free throws, has died.

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, ...

'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 ...

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 ...