1928–29 Brooklyn Visitations season

Brooklyn Visitations American Basketball League (original) 1929 18 11 John DonlonTeam 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=1928-1929&t=BROOKLYN%20VISITATIONS John Donlon Unknown (John Donlon?) Grand Prospect Hall T–3rd (1st half) T–2nd (2nd half) Did not qualify The 1928–29 Brooklyn Visitations season was their eighth professional basketball season in Brooklyn, New York, as well as their second (full) season in the original American Basketball League (under its fourth season of existence) after previously entering the ABL as a last-minute replacement for the Washington Palace Five team on January 3, 1928.1929 Brooklyn Visitations en RetroSeasons 2023-03-21 2026-08-21 https://www.retroseasons.com/teams/brooklyn-visitations/1929/overview/ During the offseason, the ABL had entered a crossroads of sorts where the league's popularity was considered to be rather high, but it came at the cost of the Original Celtics dominating the rest of the competition and risked ending the rest of the league due to games featuring the Original Celtics (usually) showcasing high attendance values upon road matches (to the point where some crowds would chant "Break up the Celtics!"Hollander Zander The NBA's Official Encyclopedia of Pro Basketball: Special NBA 35th Anniversary Edition 1981 NAL Books/The New American Library, Inc. 0-453-00407-5, p. 28), but often displaying poor attendance values for the rest of the games in the league by comparison (to the point where only five teams looked certain to enter this season originally).Nelson Murry R. The Originals: The New York Celtics Invent Modern Basketball 1999 Bowling Green State University Popular Press 0-87972-793-4, pp. 152–153 Not only that, but the Celtics' own team owner, Jim Furey, would have to go to prison during this upcoming season due to him embezzling $187,000 from a company he worked with in his spare time called the Arnold Constable Corporation.Peterson Robert Cages to Jump Shots: Pro Basketball's Early Years 1990 Oxford University Press, Inc. 0-19-505310-9, p. 88Nelson Murry R. The Originals: The New York Celtics Invent Modern Basketball 1999 Bowling Green State University Popular Press 0-87972-793-4, pp. 121–122 This combination of factors alongside the change of league presidents from NFL president Joseph Carr to former Interstate Basketball League and Metropolitan Basketball League (the latter league the Visitations and a couple of the new teams for this season were previously a part of) creator and president, Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer John J. O'Brien, led to the ABL accepting the wishes of both the fans and other league owners in breaking up the Original Celtics (and having them replaced by the New York Hakoahs for this season by extension) in order to help bolster other ABL teams up for plans of long-term success going forward (although the final results of that planned decision ultimately resulted in them creating a different superteam of sorts with the Cleveland Rosenblums taking on most of the Original Celtics' players instead).Nelson Murry R. The Originals: The New York Celtics Invent Modern Basketball 1999 Bowling Green State University Popular Press 0-87972-793-4, pp. 165 During the first half of the season, the Visitations would end up tying with the Chicago Bruins to have an above-average 15–12 record to have them both finish in third place behind the Fort Wayne Hoosiers and the first half champion Cleveland Rosenblums. As for the second half of the season, the Visitations would end up finishing the half-season in another tie, this time with the Rosenblums, as they both finished the second half of the season with a 10–4 record for a second place finish that put them both behind the Fort Wayne Hoosiers for a first place finish instead. Despite the good overall record that the Visitations had this season, Brooklyn would fail to qualify for the ABL championship series due to them failing to finish in first place in either half-season of play. 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.1928 Brooklyn Visitations basketball Statistics en StatsCrew 2026-08-21 2026-08-21 https://www.statscrew.com/basketball/roster/t-ABLBRV/y-19281928-29 Brooklyn Visitations (ABL) en peachbasketsociety.blogspot.com Mike Wilk 2026-08-21 https://peachbasketsociety.blogspot.com/2017/12/1928-29-brooklyn-visitations-abl.html 1928–29 Brooklyn Visitations #17319c #FFFFFF #E00000 #FFFFFF Joseph Brennan basketball 1 F 6 0 175 St. Augustine HS (NY) 1900-11-15 Tony Calland 1 G/F 5 7 155 No college 1902-09-02 Red Conaty 1 G/F 5 11 160 St. Francis College 1904-02-12 Rody Cooney G/F 5 8 140 No college 1902-05-17 Harry Gill basketball 1 G No college Unknown Pat Herlihy 1 C 6 4 220 No college 1909-02-28 Harry Knoblauch 1 F/C 6 2 190 No college 1898-04-21 Leo Malone 1 F/C 6 3 190 No college 1890-12-12 Willie McDonald basketball 1 F No college 1904 Dick Page 1 C 6 6 180 Niagara 1907-01-07 Red Pugh 1 G/F 5 8 150 Newtown HS (NY) 1907-04-02 Dutch Schultheiss 1 G/F 5 10 175 No college 1896-08-26 Willie Scrill 1 G 5 10 175 No college 1907-09-01 Victor Till 1 C 6 7 220 George Washington HS (NY) 1906-08-07 Bucky Williams basketball 1 G/F 5 7 155 No college 1904-02-04 John Donlon Note: Supposedly, John Frank from the previous season's roster for the Metropolitan Basketball League briefly was a part of the roster for a game during this season as well.JOHN FRANK - Pro Basketball Encyclopedia en-US Pro Basketball Encyclopedia 2014-02-21 2026-08-21 https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/player/John-Frank/ American Basketball League Standings +First HalfTeamWinsLossesWinning %Cleveland Rosenblums199.679Fort Wayne Hoosiers1810.643Brooklyn Visitations1512.556Chicago Bruins1512.556New York Hakoahs1316.448Rochester Centrals1115.423Trenton (Royal) Bengals1316.448Paterson Whirlwinds619.240 +Second Half TeamWinsLossesWinning %Fort Wayne Hoosiers113.786Brooklyn Visitations104.714Cleveland Rosenblums104.714Rochester Centrals77.500New York Hakoahs59.357Trenton (Royal) Bengals48.333Chicago Bruins410.286Paterson Whirlwinds39.250 References Brooklyn Brooklyn Visitations Brooklyn Visitations Category:Brooklyn Visitations