Cotton Nash

Cotton Nash

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Personal information
Date of birth	July 24, 1942 (1942-07-24) (age 69)
Place of birth	Jersey City, New Jersey
Nationality	American
Listed height	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Listed weight	215 lb (98 kg)
Career information
College	Kentucky
NBA Draft	1964 / Round: 2 / Pick: 12th overall
Selected by the Los Angeles Lakers
Pro career	1964–1968
Career history
1964–1965	Los Angeles Lakers
1965	San Francisco Warriors
1967–1968	Kentucky Colonels (ABA)
Career highlights and awards
2× Consensus NCAA All-American First Team (1964) 2× Consensus NCAA All-American Second Team (1962–1963)
Career NBA and ABA statistics
Points	470 (5.6 ppg)
Rebounds	273 (3.3 rpg)
Assists	65 (0.8 apg)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

A jersey honoring Nash hangs in Rupp Arena

Charles Francis "Cotton" Nash (born July 24, 1942 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and National Basketball Association forward.

Nash played for the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Francisco Warriors during the 1964-65 NBA season. He had his most success in the American Basketball Association with the Kentucky Colonels, averaging 8.5 points per game, 4.9 rebounds per game, and 1.2 assists per game. He had already played in the state of Kentucky with the University of Kentucky Wildcats basketball and baseball teams.

Nash also played 13 games over 3 MLB seasons with the Chicago White Sox and Minnesota Twins. One of those games was with the White Sox on September 10, 1967, in the ninth inning of Joe Horlen's no-hitter; he replaced Ken Boyer at first base and recorded all three putouts in the inning. [1]

External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube

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Name	Nash, Cotton
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Short description
Date of birth	July 24, 1942
Place of birth	Jersey City, New Jersey
Date of death
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