Jim Pemrick

James Thomas Pemrick


Born:
February 26, 1925
Watervliet, NY

Died:
April 16, 1973
Sarasota, FL


Career
1942-43 La Salle Institute - New York (High School)
1945-46 Sacred Heart - New York
1945-46 Barclay Products - Troy, NY (Independent)
1945-46 Behr Merchants - Troy, NY (Independent)
1946-47 Union College - New York (College)
1947-48 Union College - New York (College)
1948-49 Union College - New York (College)
1949-50 Cohoes Marras (ABL)

Born to John and Delia Pemrick, Jim played football and basketball in high school and in college. He would briefly play in the ABL, in four games with Cohoes when the Trenton team moved there. He worked for Capitol Newspapers in Albany for 19 years before taking a managerial position at Fulmont News Company in 1967. In 1972, he took a job opportunity in Sarasota, Florida, but became ill and died seven months later.

Pemrick married Rosemarie Martin in 1948 and they had three sons and three daughters.

Source:
Times Record (Troy, NY), April 17, 1973

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Sonny Jameson

Spencer Harold "Sonny" Jameson


Born:
November 9, 1926
New York, NY

Died:
September 17, 1994
New York, NY


Career
1943-44 Dewitt Clinton High School - Brooklyn (High School)
1944-45 Dewitt Clinton High School - Brooklyn (High School)
1945-46 CCNY (College)
1946-47 CCNY (College)
1947-48 CCNY (College)
1948-49 CCNY (College)
1949-50 Waterbury Coppers (EBL-Ct)
1949-50 New York Harlem Yankees (ABL)
1949-50 Cohoes Marras (ABL)
1951-52 Saratoga / Schenectady Yankees (ABL)

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Kelly Brofman

Martin "Kelly" Brofman


Born:
June 15, 1923
New York, NY

Died:
July 25, 2011
Delray Beach, FL


Career
1940-41 Jefferson High School - Brooklyn (High School)
1941-42 Brooklyn JC (Independent)
1942-43 Long Island University (College)
1946-47 Cohoes Mastadons (NYSL)
1947-48 Cohoes Mastadons (NYSL)
1948-49 Cohoes Mastadons (NYSL) 

1949-50 New Britain Rios (EBL-Ct)  
1949-50 Hartford Hurricanes (ABL)
1949-50 Waterbury Coppers (EBL-Ct)
1949-50 Cohoes Marras (ABL) Head coach / player
1949-50 Scranton Miners (ABL)


Brofman attended Brooklyn JC and transferred to LIU before joining the army to serve in World War 2. After the war, Brofman played with Cohoes in the New York League and was signed by the New York Knicks in the fall of 1949 but was released prior to the start of the basketball season. He signed with Hartford in the ABL. He was let go in December of that year to make room for Dutch Garfinkel and he return to Cohoes to play with the ABL's Marras in February of 1950, He coached one game, but when the team disintegrated, he played one game for the Scranton Miners.

His first name is sometimes listed at Morton. He is also listed at Brosman in other sources.

Source:
https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/downloads/neu:360773?datastream_id=content
http://www.spindlecity.net/NewsLetters/2010-2-Summer.pdf

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Mason Benson

Mason Howard Benson


Born:
May 11, 1927
Brooklyn, NY

Died:
March 16, 2016
Bonita Springs, FL


Career
1943-44 Erasmus Hall - Brooklyn (High School)
1944-45 Brooklyn College (College)
1946-47 CCNY (College)
1947-48 CCNY (College)
1948-49 CCNY (College)
1949-50 Cohoes Marras (ABL)
1949-50 Waterbury Coppers (EBL-Ct)
1949-50 Scranton Miners (ABL) 

Benson, a Brooklyn native, went to Brooklyn College before moving over to CCNY. He would play one season in the ABL. He played with Cohoes in January of 1950, and played in five games. When the club disbanded, he signed with Scranton, playing one scoreless game before being released.

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1949-50 Trenton Tigers / Cohoes Marras (ABL)

1949-50 TRENTON TIGERS / COHOES MARRAS
AMERICAN BASKETBALL LEAGUE (II)
4-16 .200

A playoff-team the prior season, the Tigers got off to a mediocre 4-5 start in 1949 before losing their home court. They would play exclusively on the road for a month before landing a home in Cohoes, New York, where they would play as the Marras. Their fortunes never improved, losing 11 straight games before folding on January 30, 1950. Another long-term ABL franchise evaporates.

Head Coach: 

• Leroy "Red" Smith (September 21, 1895 - November 27, 1970) 3-5
• Angelo Musi (July 25, 1918 - October 19, 2009) 1-4 Also played. See below
• Irv Torgoff (March 6, 1917 - October 21, 1993) 0-4 Also played. See below
• Marv Blumenthal (May 30, 1924 - March 18, 1969) 0-2
• Kelly Brofman (June 15, 1923 - July 25, 2011) 0-1 Also played. See below

PLAYERS:

• Mason Benson (May 11, 1927 - March 16, 2016)

Biography

• Martin "Kelly" Brofman (June 15, 1923 - July 25, 2011)

Biography

• Stan Brown (June 27, 1929 - August 2, 2009)

Biography

• Brownie Carroll (January 27, 1919 - February 16, 2010)

Biography 

• George Feigenbaum (July 2, 1928 - December 25, 2000)

Biography

• Frank Frascella (July 28, 1922 - December 10, 2014)

Biography 

• Bobby Glenn 

Biography

• Dick Hammock (March 12, 1924 - February 1, 1965)

Biography

• Jack Hewson (September 7, 1924 - June 26, 2012)

Biography

• Sonny Jameson (November 9, 1926 - September 17, 1994)

Biography 

• Herb Krautblatt (November 19, 1926 - February 10, 1999)

Biography

• Ed Lyons (July 1, 1926 - October 28, 2011)

Biography

• Frank Martello (b. March 11, 1926)
  

Biography
 

• Jack McLaughlin (August 20, 1923 - March 28, 2002)

Biography

• Angelo Musi (July 25, 1918 - October 19, 2009)

Biography

• Jim Pemrick (February 26, 1925 - April 16, 1973)

Biography
 

• Fred Price (August 12, 1924 - September 29, 2012)

Biography

• Sam Roth  

Biography

• Jerry Rullo (June 23, 1922 - October 21, 2016)

Biography

• Butch Schwartz (February 14, 1919 - May 22, 2008)

Biography 

• Burt Silverman (January 28, 1931 - May 8, 2025)

Biography

• Bob Smith (December 28, 1923 - August 20, 2014)

Biography

• Irv Torgoff (March 6, 1917 - October 21, 1993)

Biography

• Bob Tough (August 28, 1920 - April 7, 1999)

Biography

Bob Smith

Robert Austin Smith


Born:
December 28, 1923
Newark, NJ

Died:
August 20, 2014
Petaluma, CA


Career
1942-43 Long Island University (College)
1943-44 Muhlenberg College - Pennsylvania (College)
1945-46 Camp Lejeune (Military)
1946-47 Long Island University (College)
1947-48 Long Island University (College)
1948-49 Paterson Crescents (ABL)
1949-50 Cohoes Marras (ABL)

The 6'5, 200-pound Smith attended LIU but entered the Marines after in 1943, training at Muhlenberg College. He served in World War 2, and after the war, made his way back to LIU, where he was the basketball team captain. He was there during the point-shaving scandal, and when two of the crooked players, Eddie Gard and Nate Miller, approached Coach Bee asking Smith be benched, Bee knew something odd was up. Smith was a hard-nosed leader and definitely not one gamblers would approach to fix games, and Gard and Miller knew their point-shaving task would be made easier without the skilled Smith on the court. Bee met with Smith and they began to piece together what was happening. Smith graduated that year and played a season with the Paterson Crescents. Bee would resign in 1951 amidst the point-shaving scandal which grew outside of LIU to CCNY and beyond. (I want to make clear that Bee was not involved in the fixing of games, but resigned from LIU because it happened under his watch. He was a very respected coach who to coach the Baltimore Bullets in the NBA and  was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1968.)

Smith became an officer in the USMC and continued to serve for 27 until his retirement in 1969, achieving the rank of lieutenant colonel. He served not just in WW2, but in the Korean War as well as the war in Vietnam.

Source:
Hoop Crazy: The Lives of Clair Bee and Chip Hilton, by Dennis Gildea, pg 215-216
Obituary, Press-Democrat, August 28-31, 2014

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