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The Top Ranked Shooting Guards of the 1950s
Notes: This list is based on pro stats.
What players did in college is not factored into this list.
| Rnk | Athlete | Overall Decade Rank |
| 1 | Bill Sharman | 16 |
| 2 | Andy Phillip | 17 |
| 3 | Frankie Brian | 25 |
| 4 | Carl Braun | 29 |
| 5 | Richie Guerin | 30 |
| 6 | Paul Seymour | 32 |
| 7 | Bobby Wanzer | 34 |
| 8 | Dick Garmaker | 38 |
| 9 | Gene Shue | 49 |
| 10 | Max Zaslofsky | 50 |
| 11 | Tom Gola | 56 |
| 12 | Paul Walther | 57 |
| 13 | Paul Hoffman | 60 |
| 14 | Bob Harrison | 66 |
| 15 | Jack McMahon | 68 |
| 16 | Frank Selvy | 69 |
| 17 | Bill Gabor | 71 |
| 18 | Whitey Skoog | 79 |
| 19 | Chuck Noble | 80 |
| 20 | Ed Fleming | 82 |
| 21 | Billy Kenville | 91 |
| 22 | Bob Donham | 93 |
| 23 | Al Cervi | 96 |
| 24 | Ernie Beck | 97 |
| 25 | Don Sunderlage | 108 |
| 26 | Pep Saul | 110 |
| 27 | Med Park | 115 |
| 28 | Al Bianchi | 123 |
| 29 | Belus Smawley | 124 |
| 30 | Frank Kudelka | 129 |
| 31 | Ron Sobie | 131 |
| 32 | Ray Lumpp | 136 |
| 33 | Dick Farley | 138 |
| 34 | Corky Devlin | 139 |
| 35 | Bobby Cook | 145 |
| 36 | Hot Rod Hundley | 155 |
| 37 | Bucky Bockhorn | 156 |
| 38 | Sam Jones | 159 |
| 39 | Dave Minor | 160 |
| 40 | Jack Stephens | 161 |
| 41 | Jack Burmaster | 162 |
| 42 | John Logan | 163 |
| 43 | Johnny Payak | 166 |
| 44 | Al Ferrari | 168 |
| 45 | Win Wilfong | 173 |
| 46 | Danny Finn | 176 |
| 47 | Ken Murray | 177 |
| 48 | Ernie Barrett | 180 |
| 49 | Al Roges | 181 |
| 50 | Johnny McCarthy | 183 |
| 51 | Hal Greer | 185 |
| 52 | Duane Klueh | 187 |
| 53 | Rollen Hans | 189 |
| 54 | Bruce Hale | 194 |
| 55 | Chick Reiser | 197 |
| 56 | Red Owens | 200 |
| 57 | Howie Shannon | 201 |
| 58 | John Givens | 202 |
| 59 | Red Perkins | 205 |
| 60 | Wayne See | 211 |
| 61 | Kevin O'Shea | 212 |
| 62 | Bob Schafer | 213 |
| 63 | John Hargis | 214 |
| 64 | John Oldham | 218 |
| 65 | Vern Hatton | 220 |
| 66 | Walt Kirk | 226 |
| 67 | Joe Hutton | 230 |
| 68 | Dick Atha | 234 |
| 69 | Curly Armstrong | 238 |
| 70 | Johnny Macknowsky | 241 |
| 71 | Cliff Barker | 250 |
| 72 | Richie Niemiera | 252 |
| 73 | Gene Rhodes | 253 |
| 74 | Larry Friend | 259 |
| 75 | Bert Cook | 262 |
| 76 | Ray Corley | 264 |
| 77 | Jim Seminoff | 270 |
| 78 | Chris Harris | 273 |
| 79 | Ken McBride | 275 |
| 80 | Joe Dolhon | 279 |
| 81 | Bob Carney | 282 |
| 82 | Gene Vance | 285 |
| 83 | Pat Dunn | 288 |
| 84 | Gerry Calabrese | 289 |
| 85 | Sonny Hertzberg | 293 |
| 86 | George Bush | 294 |
| 87 | Hal Uplinger | 295 |
| 88 | Ron Feiereisel | 297 |
| 89 | Jack Kiley | 298 |
| 90 | Herm Schaefer | 305 |
| 91 | Fred Christ | 312 |
| 92 | Bill Ebben | 316 |
| 93 | Jim Ray | 319 |
| 94 | Connie Rea | 322 |
| 95 | Paul Hicks | 325 |
| 96 | Phil Martin | 326 |
| 97 | Jerry Fleishman | 328 |
| 98 | Tex Ritter | 329 |
| 99 | Dee Gibson | 330 |
| 100 | Forest Able | 331 |
| 101 | Si Green | 334 |
| 102 | Sam Ranzino | 337 |
| 103 | Skippy Whitaker | 343 |
| 104 | Leon Blevins | 344 |
| 105 | Carl McNulty | 346 |
| 106 | Mack Suprunowicz | 348 |
| 107 | Claude Overton | 350 |
| 108 | Don Carlson | 352 |
| 109 | Larry Hennessy | 355 |
| 110 | Ralph Hamilton | 362 |
| 111 | Bob Tough | 367 |
| 112 | Chips Sobek | 369 |
| 113 | Frank Gates | 372 |
| 114 | Ed Gayda | 379 |
| 115 | Joe Bradley | 381 |
| 116 | Rollie Seltz | 385 |
| 117 | Glen Selbo | 387 |
| 118 | Kenny Mauer | 395 |
| 119 | Paul Cloyd | 397 |
| 120 | Fritz Nagy | 398 |
| 121 | Jimmy Doyle | 403 |
| 122 | Harold Hutcheson | 410 |
| 123 | Walt Lautenbach | 411 |
| 124 | Leo Katkaveck | 412 |
| 125 | Joe Hafele | 415 |
| 126 | Gene Berce | 417 |
| 127 | Paul Hickey | 419 |
| 128 | Chink Crossin | 425 |
| 129 | Dick O'Keefe | 426 |
| 130 | John O'Boyle | 430 |
| 131 | Bob Knight | 433 |
| 132 | Greek Athas | 435 |
| 133 | Arnie Flinn | 438 |
| 134 | Don Putman | 442 |
| 135 | Bill Herman | 447 |
| 136 | Oren Nichols | 449 |
| 137 | Kasmer Ostrowski | 451 |
| 138 | Hal Lear | 452 |
| 139 | Charlie Parsley | 454 |
| 140 | Blaine Denning | 460 |
| 141 | Gene Anderson | 463 |
| 142 | Jack McCloskey | 465 |
| 143 | Bobby McDermott | 468 |
| 144 | Jim Brasco | 475 |
| 145 | Bill Erickson | 476 |
| 146 | Tommy O'Keefe | 480 |
| 147 | Fran Curran | 481 |
| 148 | John Rennicke | 488 |
| 149 | Whitey Von Nieda | 491 |
| 150 | Jerry Paulson | 492 |
| 151 | Hal England | 494 |
| 152 | Harry Donovan | 503 |
| 153 | James Phelan | 504 |
| 154 | Bob Evans | 505 |
| 155 | Cass Ostrowski | 507 |
| 156 | Charley Shipp | 513 |
| 157 | Sherwin Raiken | 515 |
| 158 | Doug Bolstorff | 517 |
| 159 | Fred Diute | 520 |
| 160 | Ronnie MacGilvray | 523 |
| 161 | Carl Meinhold | 527 |
| 162 | Dermie O'Connell | 531 |
| 163 | D.C. Wilcutt | 533 |
| 164 | Joel Kaufman | 536 |
| 165 | Herm Hedderick | 541 |
| 166 | Sherman White | 548 |
| 167 | Ralph Kaplowitz | 549 |
| 168 | Worthy Patterson | 553 |
| 169 | John Azary | 559 |
| 170 | Joe Mullaney | 562 |
| 171 | Alvaro Salvadores | 567 |
| 172 | Red Wallace | 570 |
| 173 | Floyd Layne | 572 |
| 174 | Dale Hamilton | 575 |
| 175 | Bucky Hatchett | 582 |
| 176 | Bernie Pickell | 584 |
| 177 | Ponciano Saldana | 587 |
| 178 | Butch Van Breda Kolff | 596 |
| 179 | Inge Friedenfelds | 601 |
| 180 | Ricardo Gonzalez | 603 |
| 181 | Brooks Ricca | 608 |
| 182 | Ken Menke | 614 |
| 183 | Buddy Thompson | 616 |
| 184 | Andy O'Donnell | 617 |
| 185 | Harry Wade | 621 |
| 186 | Jerry Nagel | 622 |
| 187 | Vic Hanson (1929) | 623 |
| 188 | Stasys Stonkus | 626 |
| 189 | Edgar Parizzia | 628 |
| 190 | Ko Tai Chuen | 630 |
| 191 | Juan Thompson | 643 |
| 192 | Herb Krautblatt | 646 |
| 193 | Joe Hannon | 649 |
| 194 | Hugo Del Vecchio | 651 |
| 195 | Bob Kenney | 663 |
| 196 | Antonio Zapattini | 667 |
| 197 | Jack Parkinson | 669 |
| 198 | George Chalhoub | 676 |
| 199 | Dick Triptow | 681 |
| 200 | Georgi Panov | 682 |
| 201 | Robert Hodges | 683 |
| 202 | Puggy Bell | 685 |
| 203 | Kenny Reeves | 688 |
| 204 | Robert Jeangerard | 691 |
| 205 | Dick Adair | 692 |
| 206 | Pop Gates | 697 |
| 207 | Marty Zippel | 703 |
| 208 | Hiroshi Saito | 706 |
| 209 | Roy Reardon | 707 |
| 210 | Wes Myers | 708 |
| 211 | James Yap | 711 |
| 212 | Algis Ignatavicius | 712 |
| 213 | Mike Zedalis | 714 |
| 214 | Mongkol Aimmanolrom | 717 |
| 215 | Ramiro Cortes | 720 |
| 216 | Peteris Bumbers | 725 |
| 217 | Leroy Watkins (1925) | 726 |
| 218 | Johnny Rusinko | 727 |
| 219 | Luis Salvadores | 728 |
| 220 | Kenichi Imaizumi | 731 |
| 221 | Jackie Bowden | 735 |
| 222 | Sonny Hinds | 742 |
| 223 | Wally Choice | 743 |
| 224 | Waldemar Blatkauskas | 746 |
| 225 | Zenny De Azevedo | 751 |
| 226 | Jerry Bailey | 760 |
| 227 | Ed Lerner | 763 |
| 228 | Roger Antoine | 765 |
| 229 | Earl Shannon | 768 |
| 230 | Wang Xedun | 773 |
| 231 | Norm Butz | 774 |
| 232 | Oscar Grossman | 775 |
| 233 | Paul Senesky | 786 |
| 234 | Joe Sturgis | 793 |
| 235 | Sam Lackeye | 802 |
| 236 | Frank Frascella | 809 |
| 237 | Ed Krause | 812 |
| 238 | Thomas Sealy | 816 |
| 239 | Julius McCoy | 819 |
| 240 | Joe Galiber | 824 |
| 241 | Leo Corkery | 828 |
| 242 | John Isaacs | 832 |
| 243 | Jack Garfinkel | 834 |
| 244 | Al Saemmer | 838 |
| 245 | Frank Comerford | 839 |
| 246 | Jim Cascia | 842 |
| 247 | Dick Hammock | 854 |
| 248 | Harold Hunter | 856 |
| 249 | Jim Cunningham | 857 |
| 250 | Red Fitzsimmons | 858 |
| 251 | Bob Baity | 859 |
| 252 | Howie Rader | 860 |
| 253 | Solly Walker | 868 |
| 254 | John Nacincik | 869 |
| 255 | Stan Fronczak | 873 |
| 256 | Charlie Isles | 874 |
| 257 | Ed Donovan | 876 |
| 258 | Jack Goepfert | 880 |
| 259 | Bob Jones | 894 |
| 260 | Bill Smith | 895 |
| 261 | George Davidson | 898 |
| 262 | Claude Gross | 900 |
| 263 | Lee Cappel | 901 |
| 264 | Zeke Fazekas | 903 |
| 265 | Johnny Mascavage | 906 |
| 266 | Jimmy Weston | 907 |
| 267 | Paul Campbell | 909 |
| 268 | Hank Morano | 910 |
| 269 | Sugar Cain | 913 |
| 270 | Tom Kelly | 917 |
| 271 | Tom O'Connor | 923 |
| 272 | Dan Murphy | 936 |
| 273 | Tom Muller | 943 |
| 274 | Harold Swayze | 946 |
| 275 | Bill Dankos | 953 |
| 276 | Charley Maxwell | 963 |
| 277 | Jay Norman | 964 |
| 278 | Jack Kane | 973 |
| 279 | Andy McGowan | 974 |
| 280 | Dan Kraus | 986 |
| 281 | Eddie Frazier | 990 |
| 282 | Hank DiJohnson | 998 |
| 283 | Ron Weidenhammer | 1001 |
| 284 | Johnny Murphy | 1005 |
| 285 | John Parker | 1015 |
| 286 | Hops Guldin | 1017 |
| 287 | Ed Wagner | 1018 |
| 288 | Hank Belber | 1019 |
| 289 | Ken DePoe | 1021 |
| 290 | Mike Mayok | 1027 |
| 291 | Bernie Thiebou | 1033 |
| 292 | Bill McCahan | 1034 |
| 293 | Frank Sebest | 1042 |
| 294 | George Dracha | 1044 |
| 295 | Johnny Ballots | 1046 |
| 296 | Ed Chesney | 1051 |
| 297 | Mickey Winograd | 1056 |
| 298 | Burt Silverman | 1062 |
| 299 | George Lindeman | 1063 |
| 300 | John Musheno | 1066 |
| 301 | Bob Lamon | 1069 |
| 302 | Clint Jeffries | 1074 |
| 303 | Ollie Thompson | 1075 |
| 304 | Pete Yousaitis | 1078 |
| 305 | Stan Kauffman | 1082 |
| 306 | Frank Lupe | 1086 |
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