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Larry Eaks

By NWBA, 08/17/14, 5:15PM CDT

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Team History: Long Beach Flying Wheels

Sports Biography:

Known as the “first big man!” in Wheelchair Basketball. Member of the Long Beach Flying Wheels & Garden Grove Bears (CA). Member of the NWBA Champion Flying Wheels Team (1955-1958 & 1960). Selected to NWBT All-Tournament Team 2 times. Pacific Coast All-Conference Team (1958, 1959, 1960). Driving force in several wheelchair sports programs in Southern California, including Saddleback Community College.