Harvey Pollack, the Sixers' Director of Statistical Information, passed away yesterday at the age of 93, the last link to a bygone era of professional basketball.
The NBA lost one of its pioneers yesterday, as Harvey Pollack, who had been a 76ers employee since 1963 and involved with professional basketball in Philadelphia since 1946, passed away. Pollack served as the Sixers' Director of Statistical Information until his death and is credited as being an innovator in terms of recording and tracking basketball statistics for eight decades.
Pollack, a native Philadelphian who worked with both the Warriors and the Sixers when they played in the city, as well as nearly every other professional and collegiate team in town, attempted to fill in the gaps of how statistics were kept in basketball.