Nat Hickey
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Nicholas J. "Nat" Hickey was a Croatian-American professional basketball coach/player and baseball player. He turned to coaching basketball after his retirement from playing full-time in 1942 but occa
Hickey with the Original Celtics, c. 1941
Nick Piantanida
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Nicholas John Piantanida was an American amateur parachute jumper who reached 123,500 feet with his Strato Jump II balloon on February 2, 1966, flying a crewed balloon higher than anyone before, a rec
Nat Hickey
…was inducted into the Cambria County Sports Hall of Fame in 1965 for his basketball and baseball achievements. Hickey was a cousin of parachute jumper Nick Piantanida. Hickey died on September 16, 1979, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania…
Piantanida in 1963
Strato Jump III gondola at the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum
A doctor helps Piantanida breathe after Strato Jump III