1922–23 Brooklyn Visitations season

Brooklyn Visitations Metropolitan Basketball League (original) 1923 22 19 John Donlon John Donlon Unknown (John Donlon?) Grand Prospect HallBROOKLYN VISITATION - Pro Basketball Encyclopedia en-US Pro Basketball Encyclopedia 2014-05-26 2026-07-05 https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/season/brooklyn-visitation-2/ 4th (1st half); 5th (2nd half) Did not qualify The 1922–23 Brooklyn Visitations season was both their second professional basketball season in Brooklyn, New York and their second overall season in the (original version of the) Metropolitan Basketball League.1923 Brooklyn Visitations en RetroSeasons 2023-03-21 2026-08-21 https://www.retroseasons.com/teams/brooklyn-visitations/1923/overview/ During the league's second season, three new teams would be added in replacement of the Paterson Power Brothers Five team from Paterson, New Jersey in the local Paterson Legionnaires team (who also played games as the Kingston Legionnaires within Kingston, New York under the rivaling New York State Basketball League), the Elizabeth Club from nearby Elizabeth, New Jersey, and the famous, Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame worthy Original Celtics team in New York City to start out the MBL, though the second half of the season would see the Yonkers Chippewas from Yonkers, New York replacing the Original Celtics after the Celtics left the MBL of their own volition near the end of the first half of the season following an undefeated 12–0 record that eventually became a part of a very famous 193–11–1 record on their ends. In any case, when the Original Celtics left the Metropolitan Basketball League with a week left to go (despite the Celtics having a perfect record on their ends), the MBL would decide to give the second place team of the league the official first place spot when that half of the season was over and done with; unfortunately for the Visitations, the second place spot that season wouldn't go to them, but to the 9–3 Elizabeth Club instead, as this Brooklyn squad would finish the first half of the season with an 8–6 record (though the Greenpoint Knights of St. Anthony would have a better overall win percentage with their 7–5 record instead), which led to them failing to be named the first half champions over the Elizabeth Club in the new split season format that was utilized for the MBL starting from this season onward. The second half of this Brooklyn squad's season in the MBL, however, would surprisingly end up being worse than their first half of the season was, as the Visitations would end up getting a fifth place finish ahead of only the first half champion Elizabeth Club and the previous two best teams of the MBL in the Brooklyn Dodgers basketball team and the New York MacDowell Lyceum despite the Visitations barely finishing the season with an above-average 14–13 record. This led to the Visitations being eliminated from playoff contention in both the second half first place tiebreaker series (which resulted in the Paterson Legionnaires winning 2–1 over the Brooklyn Pros (who had since rebranded their team name entirely from the old Brooklyn Prospect Big Five name)) and the first proper championship series ever held by the MBL (which resulted in the Paterson squad winning 3–1 over the Elizabeth Club to be named the league's champions, with the Legionnaires also having a case for being the overall champions of the sport for the season due to them not just winning the New York State Basketball League's championship as the Kingston Legionnaires, but also winning 3–2 in terms of overall games played over the Original Celtics when utilizing the Paterson/Kingston Legionnaires combination at hand). Not only that, but due to the rivaling Eastern Basketball League folding operations during the season alongside the nearby Interstate (Massachusetts) Basketball League soon afterward, the Metropolitan Basketball League would be considered the biggest operational professional basketball league of its time by the time the 1922–23 season ended due to the only other viable competition of it during that time being more local professional basketball leagues in the aforementioned New York State Basketball League and the Philadelphia Basketball League.1922-1923 - Pro Basketball Encyclopedia en-US Pro Basketball Encyclopedia 2014-05-26 2026-08-21 https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/seasons/1922-1923/1923-1924 - Pro Basketball Encyclopedia en-US Pro Basketball Encyclopedia 2014-05-26 2026-08-21 https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/seasons/1923-1924/ Roster Due to information on older professional basketball leagues being generally hard (if not outright impossible these days) to find for players from leagues like the Metropolitan Basketball League, there are bound to be more gaps and/or inaccuracies found in certain areas on the team's roster spots than usual. 1922–23 Brooklyn Visitations #17319c #FFFFFF #E00000 #FFFFFF Babe Artus 1 G/F 6 0 200 No college 1898-11-20 Davey Banks 1 G/F 5 7 155 No college 1901-01-04 Eddie Burke basketball, born 1894 1 G/F 5 9 160 Boys HS (NY) 1894-09-03 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 Dadson 1 F/C 6 0 170 No college 1892-11-20 Walter Garland basketball 1 G/F 5 9 160 No college 1900 Joe Lapchick C 6 5 185 No college 1900-04-12 Jimmy Lynch 1 F 5 11 St. Francis College 1901 Bee McAllister 1 G 5 6 150 No college Unknown Eddie White basketball 1 F 5 11 165 No college 1894 John Donlon Metropolitan Basketball League Standings +First HalfTeamWinsLossesWinning %Original Celtics1201.000Elizabeth Club93.750Greenpoint Knights of St. Anthony75.583Brooklyn Visitations86.571Brooklyn Pros47.364Paterson Legionnaires48.333New York MacDowell Lyceum510.333Brooklyn Dodgers212.143 The Original Celtics dropped out of the Metropolitan Basketball League after the first half of the season concluded since they felt they were too strong to compete in that league for the rest of the season. As such, the Elizabeth Club was considered the official champions of the first half of the season following the Celtics' departure, with the Yonkers Chippewas replacing the Original Celtics for the second half of the season. +Second Half TeamWinsLossesWinning %Paterson Legionnaires1810.643Brooklyn Pros1810.643Greenpoint Knights of St. Anthony1612.571Yonkers Chippewas1513.536Brooklyn Visitations1413.519Elizabeth Club914.391Brooklyn Dodgers1016.385New York MacDowell Lyceum719.269 The Paterson Legionnaires would end up winning the second half tiebreaker series for the Metropolitan Basketball League's season 2–1 over the Brooklyn Pros, with Paterson later winning the league's championship 3–1 over the Elizabeth Club.METROPOLITAN BASKETBALL LEAGUE - Pro Basketball Encyclopedia en-US Pro Basketball Encyclopedia 2014-05-26 2026-08-21 https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/league/metropolitan-basketball-league-2/Bradley Grasso Robert John Total Basketball: The Ultimate Basketball Encyclopedia 2003 SPORT Media Publishing, Inc. 1-894963-01-6, p. 408 Despite the official standing of the MBL as a professional basketball league, however, the Original Celtics were more seen as either the official champions of the sport of basketball (once again) this season or close to that mark due to the similarly competitive nature of the Franklin Wonder Five high school team by comparison due to the overall record that team had, including the perfect record held in the MBL and the near-perfect record held while playing in the EBL, though the Legionnaires would make a decent case on being the overall champions for the sport due to them previously beating the Original Celtics in three out of five matches played (even if they were competing under their alternative name of the Kingston Legionnaires at the time when they were in the New York State Basketball League instead of the Paterson Legionnaires name within the MBL). 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