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It might come as a surprise to basketball fans to discover that the game has a rich if somewhat hidden Jewish history, one in which young Jews dominated the action on the court.
From the blog of David Kufeld at The Times of Israel
Basketball was less than 25 years old in 1914 when team owners from Pittston, Wilkes-Barre, Freeland, Hazleton, Tamaqua and Plymouth met to form a professional basketball league called the Penn