Mel Hirsch, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMel Hirsch
professional basketball player
Date of Birth: 31-Jul-1921
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1968
Profession: basketball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Mel Hirsch
- Melvin M.
- Hirsch (July 31, 1921 – December 1968) was an American professional basketball player.
- He played for the Boston Celtics of the Basketball Association of America, which would later become the National Basketball Association, for 13 games in the 1946–47 season.
- At 5 feet 6 inches tall, he was the shortest player in NBA history until Muggsy Bogues more than 40 years later.
- He is the third shortest NBA player of all time, after Bogues and Earl Boykins. A stand-out player at Brooklyn College, Hirsch graduated in 1943 and served in the US Army Air Corps as a Navigator on C-47 aircraft in the 13th Troop Carrier Squadron in the South Pacific.
- He played on the squadron's officer's basketball team.Hirsch died in December 1968, aged 47, from leukemia.
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