Bushwick (Brooklyn) was the site of the very first recorded game between two all-black basketball teams, in 1907, at a court on the corner of Knickerbocker and Gates Avenues.
This is the most beautiful urban mural I have ever seen:
It’s at the corner of Knickerbocker and Woodbine Avenues in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn, New York.
On the next block, at Knickerbocker and Gates, is the spot where the very first recorded game between two African American basketball teams took place, at the Knickerbocker Courts (a.k.a. “Quinn’s Courts”) that used to exist there.
Bushwick in tha house!
An early St. Christopher Club team, circa 1911.
The game was played on November 13, 1907, between the St. Christopher Club and the Marathon Athletic Club.
It was attended by about 100 people, and was a decisive victory for St. Christopher, which trampled the Marathons by a score of 31 to 1.
The two teams were part of the first all-black basketball league, an amateur organization called the Olympian Athletic League.
That league also included the Smart Set Athletic Club, whose members emerged from the nearby Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn.
