Basketball icon Oscar Schmidt who inspired shocking victory over America dies aged 68
By Max Winters••Dailymail.com
The 1987 Pan Am Games victory in Indianapolis marked the first time a U.S. team lost a major international tournament on home soil and stunned American basketball fans.
Oscar Schmidt, the Basketball Hall of Famer known to his Brazilian compatriots as the 'Holy Hand,' died on Friday at the age of 68. His family said in a statement that he fought a brain tumor for 15…