Home > Retro Apparel > Good Sports >

Vintage Philadelphia Tapers ABL Basketball Sweatshirts
Vintage Philadelphia Tapers ABL Basketball Sweatshirt from www.retrophilly.com
 
Alternative Views:


$25.00



Availability:: Usually Ships in 2 to 3 Business Days
Product Code: PSP056SA


Size*:


Shirt-Cut:


Apparel Style:


Description
 
If you blinked back in the 60s you woulda missed them. The Tucktapers, as they were originally known, was a pretty good AAU basketball team in the 1950s when it barnstormed across the country. In 1962, after the NBA screwed him out of an expansion team, Harlem Globetrotters owner, Abe Saperstein, decided to form his own basketball league and the ABL was born. Paul Cohen's Tucktapers joined the league, starting out the inaugural season in Washington, DC., and then relocating mid-season to New York. For the 1963 season the team moved to Philly, shortened its name to the Tapers, and with our cousin Ben Katuran as GM, and such players as Cy Blye, Andy Johnson and Big Bill Chimiliewski on the court, played their few home games at Convention Hall. The league folded on December 31, 1962.
Color: Sport Grey
sweatshirts are $30, hoodies are $35
Heavyweight pre-shrunk cotton rich fleece

FREE SHIPPING



Browse for more products in the same category as this item:

Retro Apparel > Good Sports
Retro Apparel


Sounds of Philadelphia Stretched Canvas Poster $129.00
Vintage Bobby Rydell, Chubby Checker Steel Pier Stretched Canvas Poster $149.00
Vintage Elvis Presley Philadelphia 1957 T-Shirt $25.00
Vintage Horn & Hardart Automat Ceramic Mug $17.00
Vintage Charlie Parker at Philly's Club Harlem Poster $22.00
Vintage Frankford Yellow Jackets Ceramic Mug $17.00
Vintage Philadelphia Mare Frank Rizzo T-Shirt $25.00
Vintage Kingsessing Rec Center Philadelphia Sweatshirt $30.00
Vintage Cool Earl Philly Graffiti Tees $25.00