The SPHAS: The Life and Times of Basketball's Greatest Jewish Team

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NOTES PREFACE 1. “Wilt Scores 29, but Stars Lose,” Philadelphia Inquirer, October 18, 1959, Sports 13. 2. Deane McGowen, “Knicks Defeat All-Star Five before 17,932 at Garden,” New York Times, October 18, 1959, Sports 17. CHAPTER 1 1. Moe Goldman, interview by Robert Peterson, May 3, 1987, Robert Peterson Collection, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. 2. Jerry Fleishman, telephone interview by the author, September 2006. 3. Venlo Wolfson, telephone interview by the author [late 2006/early 2007]. 4. Over the years, there were several National Basketball Leagues; none were related. “NBL” is used throughout the text to denote the midwestern league that existed from 1937 to 1949. It should not be confused with the East Coast league that existed from 1898 to 1904, mentioned in Chapter 2. 5. “Revenge Is Wing Hope,” Akron Beacon Journal, December 28, 1938, 16. 6. “Fisher Plays Hebrew Five,” Flint Journal, December 30, 1938, 16. CHAPTER 2 1. “Y.M.C.A. Athletes,” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 15, 1893, 3. 2. Jon Entine, Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk about It (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1994), 199. 300 • NOTES TO PAGES 9–30 3. Ossie Schectman, telephone interview by the author, January 2007. 4. Sam (Leaden) Bernstein, interview by the author, Philadelphia [summer 2006]. 5. Marvin Black, interview by the author, Philadelphia, October 2006. 6. Ibid. 7. Gloria Hayes Kremer, “The Last of the Legendary Sphas Celebrates His 90th Birthday,” Philadelphia Inquirer, August 18, 1985, 3N. 8. Marvin Black, interview. 9. Ibid. 10. Ibid. 11. Ralph Kaplowitz, interview by the author, Queens, N.Y., December 2007. 12. “Eddie Gottlieb, 81, Dies: N.B.A. Pioneer,” New York Times, December 8, 1979, 46. 13. Frank Deford, “Eddie Is the Mogul,” Sports Illustrated, January 28, 1968, 43–45. 14. Sam (Leaden) Bernstein, interview by the author, Philadelphia [summer 2006]. 15. Jerry Fleishman, telephone interview by the author, September 2006. 16. Shikey Gotthoffer, interview by Robert Peterson, May 1987, Robert Peterson Collection, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. 17. Louis (Red) Klotz, interview by the author, Margate City, N.J., August 2006. 18. Jerry Rullo, interview by the author, Philadelphia, July 2007. 19. Deford, “Eddie Is the Mogul,” 45. 20. Jack (Dutch) Garfinkel, telephone interview by the author, October 2006. 21. Moe Goldman, interview by Robert Peterson, May 3, 1987, Robert Peterson Collection, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. 22. Abe Radel, “South Philadelphia Hebrew Association,” in The Reach Official Basket Ball Guide, 1926–27, ed. William Phillips (Philadelphia: A. J. Reach, 1926), 222. 23. Entine, Taboo, 200. 24. Louis (Red) Klotz, interview. 25. Sam (Leaden) Bernstein, interview. 26. Ron Avery, “The SPHAs: Basketball Champions Shined When the Stars Were Jewish,” Jewish Exponent, June 25, 1982, 48–49. 27. Steve Cohen, “They Took Their Shots: Gil Fitch, a Member of Philadelphia’s AllJewish Basketball Team in the 1930s, Reflects on Violence in Sports.” Naked City, PhiladelphiaCitypaper ,December30,2004–January5,2005.Availableatwww.citypaper.net/ articles/2004-12-30/naked.shtml. 28. Ibid. 29. Sam (Leaden) Bernstein, interview. CHAPTER 3 1. Moe Goldman, interview by Robert Peterson, May 3, 1987, Robert Peterson Collection, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. 2. Charles Salzberg, From Set Shot to Slam Dunk: The Glory Days of Basketball in the Words of Those Who Played It (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987), 3. 3. “Final Contest,” n.d., Moe Goldman Nomination File, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. 4. Bernard J. Kremenko, “Times’ All-P.S.A.L. Quint Headed by Aaron Liebowitz,” Moe Goldman Nomination File, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. NOTES TO PAGES 31–41 • 301 5. Moe Goldman, interview. 6. “Holman: The Early Years,” CCNY Library exhibition. Available at www.ccny. edu/library/exhibitions/holman/holman_early_years.html. 7. Moe Goldman, interview. 8. Salzberg, From Set Shot to Slam Dunk, 7. 9. Moe Goldman, interview. 10. Ibid. 11. Salzberg, From Set Shot to Slam Dunk, 3. 12. “C.C.N.Y Five Tops Temple Quint for 10th Straight Win,” Philadelphia Inquirer , February 4, 1934, Sports 1. 13. Ibid., Sports 2. 14. Salzberg, From Set Shot to Slam Dunk, 3. 15. Ibid., 4. 16. Ibid. 17. Moe Goldman, interview. 18. Salzberg, From Set Shot to Slam Dunk, 4. 19. Ibid. 20. Ibid. 21. “Moe Goldman Helps Sphas Defeat Jewels,” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 5, 1934, 11. 22. “Goldman Gleams as Sphas Defeat Visitation Foes,” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 11, 1934, Sports 1. 23. Salzberg...