Carl Husta

Carl Lawrence Husta (April 8, 1902 – November 6, 1951) was an American baseball and basketball player. He was one of the top basketball players of the 1920s and 30s, playing for the Cleveland Rosenblums, Fort Wayne Hoosiers, Camden Brewers, Boston Trojans, Kingston Colonials, and Troy Celtics of the American Basketball League and the independent Toledo Red Man Tobaccos and Original Celtics. Nicknamed "Sox", he was also an infielder for Major League Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics during the season. He died in Kingston, New York, in 1951. Despite his low scoring averages, Husta would also be considered the leading scorer of the original ABL's existence with 2,194 total points scored (albeit barely being ahead of Kugler Ostrowski, Bennie Borgmann, and Phil Rabin there) due in part to him playing in both the original era and its revived era at the time.