Bud Stallworth’s parents put education and music before basketball. Fortunately for University of Kansas basketball fans, Stallworth ignored those instructions at least once. Stallworth, a third-team Associated Press All-American in 1972, was one of nine people inducted into the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame on Sunday at the Wichita Boathouse. The class of 2012 brings the total to 219 members in the hall, created in 1961. Stallworth is likely the only one who first visited Kansas as a trumpet player. “He wasn’t very good,†former Jayhawks basketball coach Ted Owens said with a big smile after Stallworth’s speech. Music talents aside,...
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