STATISTICS & HISTORY
Walter “Bricktop” Wright” was a star athlete at New York’s Textile High School. Directly out of high school, Wright began playing basketball with one of the cities’ top independent teams, the New York Collegians. Wright attended Lincoln College in Pennsylvania for three years. Wright’s basketball career spanned over two decades and included time with elite black teams such at the New York Rens, Washington Bears and the New York Harlem Yankees.
| BRICKTOP WRIGHT | Height: | 5:10 | Weight: | 185 | College: | Lincoln(Pa)’34 | |||||
| Walter J. Wright | Born: Nov 20, 1908 | Died: Aug 11, 1972 | Hometown: | New York, NY | |||||||
| Played Negro League Baseball | REGULAR SEASON RECORD | ||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1927-28 | New York Ritz Klub | Indep | |||||||||
| 1927-28 | New York Collegians | Indep | |||||||||
| 1928-29 | New York Collegians | Indep | |||||||||
| 1929-30 | New York Collegians | Indep | |||||||||
| 1930-31 | Lincoln (Pa) | College | |||||||||
| 1931-32 | Lincoln (Pa) | College | |||||||||
| 1932-33 | New York Lido Gems | Indep | |||||||||
| 1933-34 | Lincoln (Pa) | College | |||||||||
| 1934-35 | New York Alphas | Indep | |||||||||
| 1936-37 | New York Alphas | Indep | |||||||||
| 1937-38 | New York Alphas | Indep | |||||||||
| 1938-39 | New York Alphas | Indep | |||||||||
| 1938-39 | All Collegian Big Five | Indep | |||||||||
| 1938-39 | Harlem Yankees | Indep | |||||||||
| 1939-40 | New York
Harlem Yankees |
Indep | |||||||||
| 1940-41 | Washington Bruins | Indep | 2 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 6.0 | ||||
| 1941-45 | US Army Air Corp. | Military Service | |||||||||
| 1941-42 | New York Harlem Yankees | Indep | 17 | 23 | 2 | 48 | 2.8 | ||||
| 1941-42 | Washington Bears | Indep | |||||||||
| 1942-43 | New York Rens | Indep | |||||||||
| 1942-43 | Washington Bears | Indep | 2 | 9 | 3 | 21 | 10.5 | ||||
| 1943-44 | Washington Bears | Indep | |||||||||
| 1944-45 | New York Rens | Indep | |||||||||
| 1945-46 | Brooklyn Brown Bombers | Indep | |||||||||
| 1946-47 | Washington Bears | Indep | |||||||||
| 1946-47 | Bayone | NY-NJBL | 8 | 7 | 6 | 20 | 2.5 | ||||
| 1947-48 | New York Harlem Yankees | Indep | |||||||||
| 1948-49 | New York Harlem Yankees | Indep | |||||||||
| PLAYOFF RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1944-45 | New York Rens | WBT | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
| Major League Totals | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | 0.0 | ||||