1938–39 Brooklyn Visitations season

Brooklyn Visitations American Basketball League (revived original) 1939 7 20 John Donlon John Donlon Unknown (John Donlon?) Grand Prospect Hall 7 Did not qualify 1 The 1938–39 Brooklyn Visitations season was their eighteenth and final professional basketball season in Brooklyn, New York, as well as their sixth and final season in what would be the revived version of the American Basketball League (though if one were to include the original ABL seasons they played in with the revived version of the ABL, the Visitations would appear in nine total seasons (eight full total seasons) within the combined operations of the American Basketball League instead).1939 Brooklyn Visitations en RetroSeasons 2023-03-21 2026-08-21 https://www.retroseasons.com/teams/brooklyn-visitations/1939/overview/ Unlike most other seasons that the Visitations competed in, this season would see them compete in a proper regular season format where the best four teams would compete in a proper playoff format with a semifinal round for the best four teams and a championship round for the best two teams remaining afterward. Not only that, but the ABL would also see the number of teams increase out to eight teams this season, which would signal that the effects of the Great Depression were either waning or outright ending altogether going forward here. Unfortunately for the Visitations, they would not be one of the teams to wind up escaping from the Great Depression's long-term effects when it was all said and done. This season would end up becoming the worst overall season for the Visitations franchise in terms of overall production at hand, as they would end up finishing their only proper, full season within the ABL with a poor 7–20 record for a seventh place finish that had them only ahead of the Washington Heurichs works team expansion franchise for this season by two more losses at hand. Following this season's conclusion, the Brooklyn Visitations would end up closing operations with the ABL, as they would ultimately never become a professional basketball franchise ever again afterward (although its suggested that they would instead move operations to Baltimore, Maryland to become the Baltimore ClippersBradley Grasso Robert John Total Basketball: The Ultimate Basketball Encyclopedia 2003 SPORT Media Publishing, Inc. 1-894963-01-6, p. 415). Roster Due to information on American Basketball League players being generally hard to find, there are bound to be more gaps and/or inaccuracies found in certain areas on the team's roster spots than usual.Team Standings by Year - Pro Basketball Encyclopedia en-US Pro Basketball Encyclopedia 2014-01-26 2026-08-21 https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/team-standings-by-year/?y=1938-1939&t=BROOKLYN%20VISITATION1938 Brooklyn Visitations basketball Statistics en StatsCrew 2026-08-21 2026-08-21 https://www.statscrew.com/basketball/roster/t-ABLBRV/y-19381938-39 Brooklyn Visitations (ABL) en peachbasketsociety.blogspot.com Mike Wilk 2026-08-21 https://peachbasketsociety.blogspot.com/2018/02/1938-39-brooklyn-visitations-abl.html 1938–39 Brooklyn Visitations #17319c #FFFFFF #E00000 #FFFFFF Howie Bollerman 1 F/C 6 8 200 Colgate 1907-06-09 Frank Conaty 1 F 6 2 164 No college 1909-12-30 Allie Esposito 1 G 5 10 165 New Utrecht HS (NY) 1914-03-23 Nat Frankel G/F 6 0 195 Brooklyn College 1913-11-03 Matt Guokas Matt Guokas Sr. F 6 3 195 St. Joseph's 1915-11-11 Tony Kappen G 5 10 165 Forest Hills HS (NY) 1919-04-13 Tony Krygier 1 G 5 11 170 Newtown HS (NY) 1915-09-25 Venty Leib 1 G 5 9 160 NYU 1912-04-18 Bill Nash basketball 1 F 6 2 Columbia 1913-01-13 John O'Brien basketball, born 1916 F 6 1 210 Columbia 1916-07-25 Jerry Otskey 1 G 5 10 160 St. Francis College 1918-04-09 Joe Polcha 1 G 5 11 170 No college 1917-02-24 Bob Synnott F/C 6 3 190 Theodore Roosevelt HS (NY) 1912-09-27 John Donlon American Basketball League Standings Pos. League Standings Wins Losses Win %1 Kingston Colonials 28 7 .8002 Philadelphia SPHAs 24 9 .7273 Jersey Reds 19 14 .5764 New York Jewels 19 15 .5595 Wilkes-Barre Barons 14 22 .3896 Troy Haymakers 12 21 .3647 Brooklyn Visitations 7 20 .2598 Washington Heurichs 7 22 .241 The top four teams would later compete in a playoff format this season, with the best team competing against the third-best team and the second-best team competing against the fourth-best team through a best-of-three series in the semifinal round before the winning two teams from each round would go up against each other in a best-of-three championship series. References Brooklyn Visitations Brooklyn Visitations Brooklyn Category:Brooklyn Visitations