Cotton Nash

Cotton Nash
No. 33, 17, 44
Small forward
Personal information
Date of birth July 24, 1942 (1942-07-24) (age 69)
Place of birth Jersey City, New Jersey
Nationality American
Listed height 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Listed weight 215 lb (98 kg)
Career information
College Kentucky
NBA Draft 1964 / Round: 2 / Pick: 12th overall
Selected by the Los Angeles Lakers
Pro career 1964–1968
Career history
1964–1965 Los Angeles Lakers
1965 San Francisco Warriors
1967–1968 Kentucky Colonels (ABA)
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA and ABA statistics
Points 470 (5.6 ppg)
Rebounds 273 (3.3 rpg)
Assists 65 (0.8 apg)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com

Charles Francis "Cotton" Nash (born July 24, 1942 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and National Basketball Association forward.

Nash played for the Los Angeles Lakers and the San Francisco Warriors during the 1964-65 NBA season. He had his most success in the American Basketball Association with the Kentucky Colonels, averaging 8.5 points per game, 4.9 rebounds per game, and 1.2 assists per game. He had already played in the state of Kentucky with the University of Kentucky Wildcats basketball and baseball teams.

Nash also played 13 games over 3 MLB seasons with the Chicago White Sox and Minnesota Twins. One of those games was with the White Sox on September 10, 1967, in the ninth inning of Joe Horlen's no-hitter; he replaced Ken Boyer at first base and recorded all three putouts in the inning. [1]

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