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Wheelchair Basketball at VA
In November 1946, a brief article appeared in the Birmingham Star Gazette with an accompanying photo. Patients from the Birmingham VA Medical Center in Van Nuys, California beat the team of doctors they were playing in the first game of wheelchair basketball by a score of 16-6.
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