Brooklyn Dodgers (basketball)
Brooklyn basketball team
The Brooklyn Dodgers were an American basketball team based in Brooklyn, New York that was a member of the Eastern Basketball Association.
History
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Background
The Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team played its last game at Ebbets Field on September 24, 1957, before moving to Los Angeles. The stadium was demolished in February 1960 to make way for apartment buildings.
The "Brooklyn Dodgers" name is primarily linked to the baseball team, but it has also been used by teams in other sports. The Brooklyn Dodgers were an NFL team from 1930 to 1943. After Ebbets Field was demolished, a minor league football team named the Brooklyn Dodgers was established in 1966, with Jackie Robinson as general manager.
One of the final teams to use the "Dodgers" name was the minor league Brooklyn Dodgers basketball team in 1977-1978. This team played in the Eastern Basketball Association (EBA), a league that had been around for 30 years, primarily holding weekend games in Pennsylvania, with occasional games in New York, New Jersey, New England, and Delaware.
Ownership and Operations
Al Verssen, a high school math teacher and print shop owner from Greenpoint, owned the Brooklyn Dodgers basketball team. Verssen's operation was small-scale, with him often working the door at Brooklyn College’s Roosevelt Hall gymnasium, where the team played most of its home games on Sunday evenings.
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