RetroSeasons recaps past sports seasons through stories, photos, videos, and stats from every team, league, and stadium in history. Coverage includes the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL, as well as vintage media from defunct teams and leagues.
Despite the gloomy national financial outlook, some optimistic investors formed a new organization, the National Professional Basketball League, in Detroit with Carl Storck as president. The membership included teams in Detroit and Jackson, in Michigan, and Dayton, Toledo, Columbus, and Canton in Ohio. Toledo, featuring ABL veterans Cookie Cunningham, Rich Deighan, and Len Sheppard took first-place in the first-half of the split season schedule. Detroit, featuring the strong defensive play of future University of Michigan head basketball coach Ernie McCoy, finished second, two games back.Dayton, which finished last in the first session, came alive to take first place in the second half after signing 6’6″ Charlie Gillium and veteran major-leaguer Jerry Sullivan from the ill-fated Syracuse ABL club. In the best of seven game playoffs, Toledo’s well-balanced attack wore down Dayton in six games to give the Red Men the first, and as it turned out, only NPBL championship.
By the first quarter of the twentieth century, the Draper-Maynard Company of Plymouth, New Hampshire had become the preeminent manufacturer...
/ By the first quarter of the twentieth century, the Draper-Maynard Company of Plymouth, New Hampshire had become the preeminent manufacturer of professional model baseball gloves and one of the largest sporting goods suppliers in the United States. In fact, throughout the 1920's, the company claimed that between 80 and 90 percent of professional baseball players used their gloves. The metamorphosis of Jason & Nathaniel Draper's one-room glove factory in Glove Hollow into an iconic international brand is a remarkable American success story made possible by hard work and a little good fortune.
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I sincerely appreciate the research work, and the information being shared. It is important and interesting history.