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his wife, "Who was that Who was that lady you were talking to?" "I didn't tell him until I got home, but I knew I had to tell him," Nadine said. "I knew he would make me tell him so I simply said, 'She said she is your mother, "I told him not to call her, but he wouldn't listen. He went straight to the phone and called her and talked for over an hour. I heard him say, "Why didn't you let me know where you were all these We drove over the next day. His mother was a very good hearted person but she was a heavy drinker." Reggie never found out who his real father was.

His mother told relatives that he was a married man living in Detroit, but she never told anyone who he was. "Reggie told me once that someone had told him he had been shoulder to shoulder with his real father in a crap game," Reggie's brother Robert Hall, said, "but hedidn't know forsure. He used to get very angry with me and accuse me of not telling him who his father was, but I didn't know. My mother never told me." Reggie and Nadine started to grow apart. He would go out to the pool room or the streets and hang around with men she didn't care for and then come home at four in the morning and expect her to get up and cook him something.

"I was always supposed to be wailing for him regardless," Nadine said, "and I got tired of him not being around." Continued on Page 24 "Reggie was funny about his sie," Nadine said. "I remember sometimes when we would be walking out of Pistons' games and kids would ask him, 'Hey man, are you seven feet tall Man. are you Reggie Harding'' and he would say, 'No, I'm six five, I never heard of Reggie We would be shopping or out and people would come up to him all the time and ask him if he was seven feet tall and he would be nasty to them. "I'd tell him, 'Reggie, don't do those people that way, they like and he would say, They are making fun of Meanwhile Reggie's real mother was attending every Pistons game and keeping all the scorebooks. Mrs.

Lillie Mae Thomas also worked at the Sheraton Cadillac Hotel where the Pistons had their main office. Ball players often stay there and eat there and Mrs. Thomas saw her son there many times but never said a word to him. During one of the Pistons home games of Reggie's best year (the 1964-1965 season) Mrs. Thomas came up and spoke to Reggie's wife.

"She had been drinking," Nadine said, "and she came up to me and said, 'Please don't tell Reggie I'm here. I come to all the games. 'I'm his real mother. I don't want him to know, but please do me one favor, please make sure he comes to my funeral. She gave me her phone number in case I wanted to call," Nadine said, "then she walked away." After the game as Reggie and Nadine were driving home, Reggie kept asking CROWLEY'S Budget, Lower Level, Gratiot at Farmer, Detroit 48226, Michigan, Dept.

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