Basketball, Forum at YMCA
Three young men posing with basketball. YMCA located at the northwest corner of Library and Bostwick.
Bob Schichtel. local sports researcher, further describes the photograph: These three are members of the 1947-48 Grand Rapids Rangers Professional Basketball Team, a team in the PBLA. PBLA is the Professional Basketball League of America. It was a short lived team that played six games to a 3-3 record before being dissolved. They played their home games at the Civic Auditorium. The players are from left to right, player and coach Stan Szukala, Jimmy Cominsky and George Radkovicz. Radkovicz would go on to play in the NBA for five seasons at Syracuse, Baltimore and Milwaukee. These three were at the YMCA helping with a basketball clinic for local high school players and coaches.