Celebrating a ‘big part’ of Muggsy’s success

Former NBA star’s legacy on full display on Sherron Bogues Day

Bernard C. “Jack” Young and Herman “Tree” Harried both watched Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues play in the early 1980s, Young as a fan of Baltimore basketball and Harried as a teammate at Dunbar. They saw the same thing: a 5-foot-3 point guard, short even for the women’s game. But their expectations differed some.

Said Young, the Baltimore City Council president: “If anybody would’ve told me that he wasn’t going to be a pro, I told them they must be out of their mind.”

And Harried, the Lake Clifton boys basketball coach: “I would’ve never thought he’d play no 15 years in the NBA.”

They had come Tuesday, along with hundreds of others, to celebrate Sherron Bogues Day at Druid Hill Park, where Muggsy hosts a basketball and flag football tournament for local youths every June 27. His sister, a longtime Baltimore Department of Recreation and Parks employee who ran its basketball and football pro- Dejah Pendles of CC Jackson drives to the basket in a 17-and-under game against Power Move during the second Sherron Bogues Day at the Druid Hill Park basketball courts.

KIM HAIRSTON/BALTIMORE SUN PHOTOS From left, Taneisha Hicks of West Baltimore listens as Muggsy Bogues speaks with her son, Tyler Jackson, 17. Jackson wanted to meet Bogues, whom he has admired for years. Bogues and the Baltimore City Recreation and Parks hosted the second Sherron...