MoonFixer
"If he had a different kind of personality, it would have been very difficult for the black players who came after him to succeed. He was always a gentleman, never flamboyant, never walking around with a chip on his shoulder, even if he deserved to feel that way." (Moonfixer, p. xiv) He got this name because his "job" in school was to make sure that the moon was shining for the couples on a date to make it the "perfect" night. Everyone looked up to Lloyd as a leader. Earl said the most important achievement in his basketball career was getting there. He might have made it seem easy, but changing the game was the hardest thing to do in those days. Earl wasn't intimidated by anything. When people would call him names, make untrue statements about him, or even say things like, "Go back to Africa!", he would never take that as an insult, but as motivation. He wanted to prove them wrong, prove to them that he was more than just a colored man. He had skill and talent, just like the rest of the team. He wanted to prove to everyone that he was no different then all the white basketball players, and if he was, then better.