Baltimore City Mourns Longtime Youth Basketball Coach Anthony Lewis

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A longtime Baltimore City younker hoops manager has died.

Baltimore City Recreation and Parks officials connected Sunday confirmed the caller decease of Anthony Lewis. Known arsenic “Dutie,” officials recognition him with recruiting kids from section neighborhoods and keeping them retired of occupation by directing their energies toward hoops and different sports.

“Lewis was an highly talented and influential hoops manager with galore of his players pursuing palmy collegiate and nonrecreational careers,” officials said successful a statement. “His passing and bequest volition proceed to beryllium felt by BCRP, the section hoops assemblage and the metropolis arsenic a whole.”

Lewis was a programme manager astatine Cecil Kirk Recreation Center.

CBS Baltimore Staff