It was a cool, breezy day in Indianapolis and Dick Tinkham was sitting in his law office pondering ways to drum up business. He had recently taken on the responsibility of gaining new clients for his firm, but at this point things were going a bit slow.
The sports editor from the Indianapolis Star had recently approached him and a client named John Devoe, a client of Tinkham's as well as a partner when they developed Indiana's first indoor tennis club, about joining a basketball league known as ‘The Lively League', which only allowed players 6'0' and under.