| Red Mihalik | |
| Height Ft: | 6 |
| Height In: | 0 |
| Weight Lb: | 180 |
| Birth Date: | 22 September 1916 |
| Birth Place: | Ford City, Pennsylvania |
| Death Place: | Ford City, Pennsylvania |
| Nationality: | American |
| High School: | Ford City (Ford City, Pennsylvania) |
| Career Number: | 6 |
| Career Position: | Guard |
| Years1: | 1946 |
| Team1: | Pittsburgh Ironmen |
| Years2: | 1946–1947 |
| Team2: | Youngstown Bears |
| Bbr: | mihalre01 |
| Hof: | zigmund-j-red-mihalik |
Zigmund John "Red" Mihalik (September 22, 1916 – September 25, 1996) was an American basketball player and referee of Polish descent. Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1986, he was then inducted into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame at St. Mary's College in Orchard Lake, Michigan on June 13, 1996.[1]
Born thirty miles north of Pittsburgh in Ford City, Pennsylvania as Zigmund Mihalik[2] on September 22, 1916, Mihalik played basketball as a youth and subsequently took up refereeing when officials for a high school game failed to show up.
During the 1940s, the 6'1" Mihalik played professionally for the Pittsburgh Ironmen of the Basketball Association of America and the Youngstown Bears of the National Basketball League.
He then embarked upon a long officiating career, working games for the NBA, NCAA, and Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964 and in Mexico City in 1968,[3] and was deemed the best official of the game on all levels in the 1950s by Dell Publications until an on-court knee injury forced him into retirement in 1972.[4]
Mihalik was inducted into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.[5] [6]
Mihalik died from cancer at the age of eighty on September 25, 1996 in Ford City.[7] [8]
| Legend | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GP | Games played | ||||
| FG% | Field-goal percentage | ||||
| FT% | Free-throw percentage | ||||
| APG | Assists per game | ||||
| PPG | Points per game | ||||
| Year | Team | GP | FG% | FT% | APG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946–47 | Pittsburgh | 7 | .333 | .000 | .0 | .9 |
| Career | 7 | .333 | .000 | .0 | .9 | |