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The Palace Five!

Posted by on July 6, 2013

Cira the 1920’s or 30’s, Phosy Saba played on The Palace Five Basketball team

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Standing:
Jean Hall (D), William Monroe, Phosy Saba, Jacob Mandell (D), Harry Levine (D) (here)

Sitting:
Martin Viullermet (here, here, here), Norman Williams (here), Alvin Gallagher (D) (here, )

The only reference I could find for the Willimantic, Palace Five was here and here.  From the articles the Palace Five was still playing in 1936.  Thank you to Mickey Saba (Phosy’s son) for providing this photo and some of the background.

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