Walt Przybylo

Walter Przybylo


Born:
August 2, 1923
Schenectady, NY

Died:
May 24, 1973
Schenectady, NY


Career
Mont Pleasant High School - New York (High School)
1948-49 Cortland State Teachers College - New York (College)
1949-50 Schenectady Packers (ABL)
1950-51 Cortland High School - New York (High School) Head coach
1953-54 Nott Terrace High School - New York (High School) Head coach 
1958-59 Linton High School - Schenectady, NY (High School) Head coach
1959-60 Linton High School - Schenectady, NY (High School) Head coach
1960-61 Linton High School - Schenectady, NY (High School) Head coach
1961-62 Linton High School - Schenectady, NY (High School) Head coach
1962-63 Linton High School - Schenectady, NY (High School) Head coach
1963-64 Linton High School - Schenectady, NY (High School) Head coach
1964-65 Linton High School - Schenectady, NY (High School) Head coach
1965-66 Linton High School - Schenectady, NY (High School) Head coach
1966-67 Linton High School - Schenectady, NY (High School) Head coach
1967-68 Linton High School - Schenectady, NY (High School) Head coach
1968-69 Linton High School - Schenectady, NY (High School) Head coach
1969-70 Linton High School - Schenectady, NY (High School) Head coach
1970-71 Linton High School - Schenectady, NY (High School) Head coach
1971-72 Linton High School - Schenectady, NY (High School) Head coach
1972-73 Linton High School - Schenectady, NY (High School) Head coach 

Walt was born to Polish immigrants Antoni and Sophia Przybylo in Schenectady. After serving in World War 2, Przybylo would become a long-time coach and teacher in the Schenectady area. One of his players was basketball Hall of Famer Pat Riley. Aside from basketball, he also coached golf and baseball. During the 1968-69 season, Coach Przybylo suffered a heart attack. He would return to the bench, but in November of 1972 he suffered a second heart attack. He would miss the remainder of the season and never recover. He died in May of 1973 of heart failure and pneumonia.

Walt married Julia Matuck (1926-1998) had two sons.

Source:
Times Record (Troy, NY), May 25, 1973

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Roy Peters

Roy Webber Peters, Jr.


Born:
May 7, 1924
Schenectady, NY

Died:
April 6, 2004
Sarasota, FL


Career
1939-40 Mt. Pleasant High School - Schenecady, NY (High School)
1940-41 Mt. Pleasant High School - Schenecady, NY (High School)
1941-42 Mt. Pleasant High School - Schenecady, NY (High School)
1942-43 Syracuse University (College)
1945-46 Syracuse University (College)
1946-47 Syracuse University (College)
1948-49 Siena College (College)
1949-50 Schenectady Packers (ABL)

Born to Roy and Elizabeth Peters, Roy starred on the basketball court at Mt. Pleasant HS. He got a scholarship to play at Syracuse, and made the team as a freshman. He entered the U.S. Army after his first season, and was part of the D-Day invasion in Normandy. He was captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp, from where he would escape in May of 1945. He returned to Syracuse to continue his education. He was academically ineligible in his senior year, and then transferred to Siena where he played one more year of college baseball. He played basketball briefly with the Schenectady Packers in 1949, but chose the business world over the athletic world. He became a successful insurance agent and would become the Commissioner of Off-Track Betting for the state of New York.

Roy married Lorriane Bootier and they had four sons.

Source:
Orange Hoops
Albany Times Union, April 25, 2004

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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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Ducky Moore

Donald "Ducky" Moore 

Born:
December 13, 1925
Cleveland, OH

Died:
September 25, 1990
Warrensville Heights, OH


Career
1946-47 Harlem Globetrotters (Independent)
1947-48 Harlem Globetrotters (Independent) 
1949-50 New York Harlem Yankees (ABL)
1950-51 Harlem Globetrotters (Independent)
1951-52 Harlem Globetrotters (Independent) 
1952-53 Harlem Globetrotters (Independent)
1953-54 Harlem Globetrotters (Independent)

1954-55 Harlem Globetrotters (Independent)

1955-56 Harlem Globetrotters (Independent)

1956-57 Harlem Globetrotters (Independent)

1957-58 Harlem Globetrotters (Independent)

1958-59 Harlem Globetrotters (Independent)

1959-60 Harlem Globetrotters (Independent)
1961-62 Harlem Ambassadors (Independent) Coach / player

CORRECTED 4/14/22

Further research after a reader's tip lead me to the conclusion that the wrong man has been credited as Ducky Moore. As the reader stated, the correct man has been identified and all references to the "imposter" is gone. (And I found a better photo)

Source:
Evening Times, Sayre, PA, Feb 19, 1962

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Benny McNeil

Benny McNeil


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Career
Benjamin Franklin High School - New York City (High School)
1948-49 Harlem Yankees (NYSL)
1949-50 New York Harlem Yankees (ABL)
1950-51 Saratoga Harlem Yankees (ABL)
1951-52 Saratoga / Schenectady Harlem Yankees (ABL)
1951-52 Fort Eustis (Military)
1952-53 Saratoga / Glens Falls Harlem Yankees (ABL)
1954-55 Fort Lee (Military)
1955-56 Fort Lee (Military)

6'7

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Frank Martello

Frank Thomas Martello, Jr.


Born:
March 11, 1926
Brooklyn, NY

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Career
Erasmus Hall - Brooklyn (High School)

1946-47 Temple University (College)
1947-48 Temple University (College)
1948-49 Cohoes Mastadons (NYSL)
1949-50 Sunbury Mercuries (EPBL)
1949-50 Trenton Tigers (ABL)

1950-51 Reading Rangers (EPBL)

1950-51 Utrecht Chiefs YMCA - Brooklyn (Independent)
1951-52 Middletown Guards (ABL)

1951-52 Lancaster Rockets (EPBL)
1952-53 Lancaster Roses (EPBL)

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Vic Mastriani

Victor Robert Mastriani


Born:
January 11, 1921
Schenectady, NY

Died:
January 1, 2010
Houston, TX


Career
Mont Pleasant High School - New York (High School)
1942-43 Siena College (College)
1946-47 Siena College (College)
1946-47 Schenectady Comets (NYSL)
1947-48 Schenectady Comets (NYSL)
1948-49 Schenectady Packers (NYSL)
1949-50 Schenectady Packers (ABL)

The 5'9 guard went to Siena after high school, and entered the USMC to serve his country in World War 2. After the war, he finished his schooling at Siena and then played basketball in Schenectady for the Packers in the New York State League and the ABL. He would later operate a pharmacy with his two brothers and retired to Houston to be closer to his son and daughter.

Source:
Daily Gazette, January 7, 2010

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