Robert Pitts 1919 – 2011

Biography

Robert Pitts was born on June 23, 1919, in Pontotoc, where he began his life in a small Mississippi community. He would go on to pursue a career in basketball, becoming part of the American sporting landscape during a formative era of the game. Throughout his life, Pitts remained connected to the region where he was raised, eventually settling in the greater Louisiana area.

After nearly a century of life, Robert Pitts passed away on October 29, 2011, in Baton Rouge. His final resting place is Oxford Memorial Cemetery in Oxford, United States, where he is remembered by those who knew him and by the legacy of his athletic contributions. His life spanned from the early twentieth century through the beginning of the twenty-first, witnessing tremendous changes in American culture and sports.