In retrospect, I am surprised this league lasted 3 seasons. It, like it's Connecticut counterpart, was doomed due to the prominence of the BAA and NBL as well as the ABL. Granted, the ABL's scope had diminished substantially since the War, but it still held a higher status as a professionally league than the NY League or its Eastern Basketball Association partners in the Connecticut League and the Eastern League. Only the Eastern League would survive of the three.
I was able to locate around half of the box scores for this league, so statistics are largely incomplete.
Here is the NYSL by the numbers:
Number of NYSL players: 352
Unidentified/unknown whereabouts:99 (a stunning amount considering the luck I have had with other minor leagues)
Surviving
NYSL players: 11 assumed to be alive, four of which are confirmed survivors. Of
the 99 unknown, it is possible there are a few who are still with
us.
Longevity:
Of
the 352 players, 44 players (12.50%) lived to see the age of 90. 11 men (3.13%)
died before the age of 50. (Numbers could obviously change as unknown players get identified.
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