Leon Monde (New York City; January 8, 1895 – after May 1931)[1][2] was an American basketball player for the New York Renaissance (commonly known as the "Rens"),[3] one of the dominant basketball teams of the 1920s and 1930s. Monde was a veteran of Negro league baseball,[4][5] and was one of the first players for the Rens.[6] In 1922, the Metropolitan Basketball Association (MBA) ordered his suspension from the Rens (then competing under their original name, the Spartan Braves) for having played baseball professionally,[7] but the team refused.[8] In 1963, the New York Renaissance franchise was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.[9]
Monde's draft registration card of June 1917 listed his residence as being on Cleveland Street in Brooklyn.[1] He was employed as a "machine hand" and was supporting his mother, his wife, and a 14-year-old relative.[1] In April 1930, The New York Age noted that Monde and his wife moved from Brooklyn to Eatontown, New Jersey.[10] In 1931, Monde went into business selling tea and coffee.[2]
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- ^ a b "Brooklyn News". The New York Age. May 23, 1931. p. 3. Retrieved September 13, 2022 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "Fadeaway: The Team That Time Forgot - ABC News". abcnews.go.com. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
- ^ Purdy, D. (2010). Kiss 'Em Goodbye: An ESPN Treasury of Failed, Forgotten, and Departed Teams. Random House Publishing Group. p. 219. ISBN 9780345520470. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
- ^ Foster, F. (2014). Sweetwater: A Biography of Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton. Golgotha Press, Incorporated. ISBN 9781629173276. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
- ^ Gaines, Johnathon (February 11, 2010). "Black History Month: Globetrotters weren't first B-ballers from Harlem". cleveland.com. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
- ^ Clark, William E. (January 7, 1922). "Spartand and B.A.C.'s Defy M.B.A. Using Barred Players". The New York Age. p. 6. Retrieved September 13, 2022 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ Boyd, H. (2007). The Harlem Reader: A Celebration of New York's Most Famous Neighborhood, from the Renaissance Years to the 21st Century. Crown/Archetype. ISBN 9780307422088. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
- ^ "New York Renaissance". hoophall.com. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
- ^ "Society, Club & Fraternal Doings". The New York Age. April 19, 1930. p. 3. Retrieved September 13, 2022 – via newspapers.com.
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