25 Facts About Gibson

1. In 1946, Gibson played well in his last season with the Homestead Grays.

2. In 1942, Gibson signed with the Grays for $250 a month plus bonuses.

3. In 1937, Gibson held out for more money and refused to join the Crawfords.

4. In 1933, Gibson enjoyed another fine season and appeared in the first Negro League All-Star Game.

5. On July 31, 1930, Gibson signed with the Homestead Grays.

6. On January 20, 1947, at the age of 35, Josh Gibson died of a cerebral hemorrhage.

7. Althea Gibson was born in South Carolina; her family moved to New York City in 1930 and it was in New York that Gibson was introduced to tennis.

8. Althea Gibson is an enduring symbol of the changes that began to be rendered in American sporting culture in the 1950s.

9. In 1946, at the age of 19, Gibson was put in contact with two affluent black physicians, who sponsored both her and another promising young tennis player named Arthur Ashe.

10. Althea Gibson broke the color barrier in the world of tennis in the 1950s.

11. Althea Gibson was the first black tennis player to win the sport's major titles.

12. Althea Gibson was born in Silver, South Carolina, on August 25, 1927.

13. On September 28, 2003, Gibson died after a long illness of respiratory failure at East Orange General Hospital in New Jersey.

14. At a young age, Gibson moved with her family to Harlem, a neighborhood in the borough of New York City.

15. Althea Gibson was born in South Carolina on August 25, 1927.

16. On September 28, 2003, Gibson died of respiratory failure in East Orange, New Jersey.

17. Althea Gibson passed away on 28 September 2008 because of complication.

18. Althea Gibson was born in Silver town in Clarendon County, South Carolina on 25 August 1927.

19. Althea Gibson was the first African-American female tennis player to win the US Open.

20. In 1977, Gibson introduced the serial numbering system in use until 2006.

21. In Japan, Orville by Gibson once made Gibson designs sold in that country.

22. In October 2017, Gibson announced plans to relocate its Memphis operations to a smaller location and plans to sell the Memphis property.

23. In 2014, Gibson acquired the consumer electronics business of Royal Philips.

24. In 1958, Gibson produced two new designs: the eccentrically shaped Explorer and Flying V These "modernistic" guitars did not sell initially.

25. In 1944, Gibson was bought by Chicago Musical Instruments, which was acquired in 1969 by Panama-based conglomerate Ecuadorian Company Limited (ECL), that changed its name in the same year to Norlin Corporation.