Eastern Professional Basketball League (1946-1947)
American Basketball League (1947-1953)
Eastern Professional Basketball League (1954-1970)
Eastern Basketball Association (1958-1978)
Continental Basketball Association (1978-1980)
Tombstone
Born: 1946 – Eastern Professional Basketball League founding franchise
Re-Branded: 1980 (Scranton Aces)
First Game:
Last Game:
EPBL/EBA Champions: 1947, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1969, 1973 & 1978
ABL Champions: 1948, 1949 & 1952
CBA Championships: None
Arenas
1967-68: West Side Armory (5,000)11967-68 Allentown Jets Program
1973-74: King’s College
1978-79: Coughlin High School (1,760)21978-79 Continental Basketball Association Official Guide
1979-80: Scranton Catholic Youth Center (3,850)31979-80 Continental Basketball Association Official Guide
Marketing
Team Colors: Royal Blue & Gold41978-79 Continental Basketball Association Official Guide
Ownership
Owners:
- ????-1980: Art Pachter
Background
In 1979, owner Art Pachter moved the Barons to neighboring Scranton where the team played as the Pennsylvania Barons during the 1979-80 CBA season. The following season, Pachter changed the name of the team to the Scranton Aces, bringing the Barons era to an end after 34 seasons.
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Editor's Pick
Boxed Out
Remembering The Eastern Professional Basketball League
In Boxed out of the NBA: Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League, Syl Sobel and Jay Rosenstein tell the fascinating story of a league that was a pro basketball institution for over 30 years, showcasing top players from around the country. During the early years of professional basketball, the Eastern League was the next-best professional league in the world after the NBA. It was home to big-name players such as Sherman White, Jack Molinas, and Bill Spivey, who were implicated in college gambling scandals in the 1950s and were barred from the NBA, and top Black players such as Hal “King” Lear, Julius McCoy, and Wally Choice, who could not make the NBA into the early 1960s due to unwritten team quotas on African-American players.
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Ken Spain UH , Olympic gold medalist played in the Eastern Basketball Association Always amazed his career which eventually led to pro football team tryouts after he drifted in pro basketball leagues . At 6’9 , 225 he tried to make rosters as a tight end or lineman