Charles Borck

{{short description|Filipino basketball player}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Charles Borck | image = | alt = | number = | team = | position = [[Center (basketball)|Center]] | league = | birth_date = {{birth date|1917|1|4}} | birth_place = [[Manila]], [[Insular Government of the Philippine Islands|Philippine Islands]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2008|2|6|1917|1|4}} | death_place = [[Las Vegas]], U.S. | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 1 | weight_lb = | high_school = | college = [[San Beda Red Lions basketball|San Beda]] | draft_year = | draft_round = | draft_pick = | draft_team = | draft_league = | career_start = | years1 = | team1 = | highlights = | bbr = | bbr_wnba = | wnba_profile = }} '''Charles Borck''' (January 4, 1917 – February 6, 2008) was a [[Filipino people|Filipino]] [[basketball]] player.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-04-18 |title=Charlie Borck Bio, Stats, and Results {{!}} Olympics at Sports-Reference.com |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/charlie-borck-1.html |access-date=2023-11-15 |archive-date=2020-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418003243/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/charlie-borck-1.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> Born in [[Quiapo, Manila|Quiapo]], [[Manila]], [[Philippines]]<ref name="bas">[http://www.gameface.ph/forums/index.php?action=printpage;topic=1904.0 Print Page - NCAA's Past and Present Foreign Players.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722234703/http://www.gameface.ph/forums/index.php?action=printpage%3Btopic%3D1904.0 |date=July 22, 2011 }}</ref> of a [[Germany|German]] father and a [[Spain|Spanish]] mother, he was nicknamed ''The Blonde Bombshell'' because of his blond hair and good looks.<ref name="bas"/><ref name="bor">Bocobo, Christian and Beth Celis. ''Legends and Heroes of Philippine Basketball'', Philippines: The House Printers, 2004, p. 48</ref> A 6'1" [[center (basketball)|center]], he played for the [[San Beda College|San Beda]] [[San Beda Red Lions#Basketball|Red Lions]] men's senior basketball team and later for the [[Philippines men's national basketball team|Philippines]] at the [[Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics|1936 Summer Olympics]] where he was the tallest member of the latter team.<ref>[http://www.philippineasiannewstoday.com/pinoy-trivia/1199-americana Philippine Asian News Today]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

After retiring from active play, Borck settled in [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]], United States in 1949. By the time of his death in 2008, he was the [[Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics - Men's team squads#Philippines|1936 Philippine men's Olympic basketball team]]'s last surviving member.<ref name="bor"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Obituaries - Borck, Charles |url=http://www.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/individual_display.jsp?obitID=3560421 |website=Las Vegas Review-Journal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604143147/http://www.reviewjournal.com/obituaries/individual_display.jsp?obitID=3560421 |archive-date=4 June 2011 |date=10 February 2008}}</ref> He became one of the first inductees into the Philippine National Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999 along with fellow 1936 Olympic basketball team members [[Ambrosio Padilla]], [[Jacinto Ciria Cruz]] and [[Primitivo Martinez]].<ref name="bor"/>

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