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ROLLIE SELTZ

Rolland “Rollie” Seltz won eight letters at Hamline College, four each for basketball and baseball. He earned small-college All-American honors as a senior. Seltz played professional basketball for three  seasons in the National Basketball League and one in the National Basketball Association.   His career was short-circuited when he jumped from the NBA to play for his hometown  St. Paul Lights in the newly organized Professional Basketball League of America. St.Paul had a winning team, but competing for fans with the Minneapolis Lakers, the best team in basketball, was an impossible situation and the team folded in December, ending Seltz’ pro basketball career.

 

ROLLIE SELTZ Height: 5:10 Weight: 170 College: Hamline’46
Rolland John Seltz Born: Jan 25, 1924 Hometown: St.Paul, Mn.
REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year Team League     GA FGM  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS   AVG
1942-43 Hamline College
1943-44 Hamline College
1944-45 Hamline College
1946-47 Hamline College
1946-47 Anderson NBL 41 123 104 143 .727 350 8.5
1947-48 Anderson NBL 59 118 90 119 .756 326 5.5
1948-49 Waterloo NBL 62 188 127 174 .730 503 8.1
1949-50 Waterloo NBA 34 93 80 104 .769 266 7.8
1950-51 St.Paul NPBL 20 26 22 39 .564 74 3.7
Major League Totals 216 548 423 579 .731 1519 7.0
POST SEASON RECORD
Year Team League     GA FGM  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS   AVG
1946-47 Anderson 2 4 2 2 1.000 10 5.0
1947-48 Anderson NBL 6 11 4 4 1.000 26 4.3
1947-48 Anderson WBT 3 8 3 6 .500 19 6.3
Major League Totals 11 23 9 12 .750 55 5.0

 

GLEN SELBO

Glen Selbo won ten varsity letters at Logan High School in LaCrosse, Wisconsin. Selbo played four years a college varisty basketball, his freshman and senior years at the University of Wisconsin and his sophmore and junior years at the University of Michigan. In his senior year at Wisconsin, Selbo was named the most Big Nine Most Valuable Player for basketball. Selbo played professional basketball for four seasons and minor league professional baseball from 1947 until 1956. He compiled a .316 career batting average.

 

GLEN SELBO Height: 6:03 Weight: 195 College: Western Michigan ’46 /Wisconsin’47
Glendon Laverne Selbo Born: Mar 29, 1926 Died: May 29, 1995 Hometown: LaCrosse, Wi.
REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year Team League     GA FGM  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS   AVG
1943-44 Wisconsin College
1944-45 U.S. Navy Military Service
1944-45 Western Michigan College
1945-46 Western Michigan College
1946-47 Wisconsin College
1947-48 Oshkosh NBL 59 157 62 100 .620 376 6.4
1948-49 Oshkosh NBL 60 119 77 114 .675 315 5.3
1949-50 Sheboygan NBA 13 10 22 29 .759 23 42 3.2
1949-50 New Holstein WSBL
1949-40 Racine Knights Indep
1950-51 Denver NPBL 30 85 65 84 .774 235 7.8
Major League Totals 162 371 226 327 .691 968 6.0
PLAYOFF RECORD
Year Team League     GA FGM  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS   AVG
1947-48 Oshkosh NBL 4 5 5 5 1.000 15 3.8
Major League Totals 4 5 5 5 1.000 15 3.8

 

ERNIE SEIFERT

 

ERNIE SEIFERT Height: Weight: College: None
Ernest Max Seifert Born: Dec 25, 1888 Died  Sep 11, 1970 Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year Team League     GA FGM  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS   AVG
1908-09 East Side YMCA YMCA
1909-10 East Side YMCA YMCA
1910-11 Long Island St. YMCA
1911-12 Brooklyn Indep
1912-13 Brooklyn Indep
1913-14 Brooklyn Indep
1914-15 Brooklyn Indep
1915-16 Brooklyn St.Stephen’s Indep
1916-17 Brooklyn St.Stephen’s Indep
1917-18 Brooklyn St.Stephen’s Indep
1918-19 Brooklyn St.Stephen’s Indep
1919-20 New York Lyceum Indep
1919-20 Brooklyn St.Stephen’s Indep
1919-20 Brooklyn St.Christopher AC Indep
1920-21 Holyoke IL 8 16 13 45 5.6
1920-21 Brooklyn St.Stephen’s Indep
1921-22 Bronx Starling Gray Five Indep
1922-23 New York St Aloysius IPBNY
1922-23 Bronx Starling Gray Five Indep
Major League Totals 8 16 13 45 5.6

SOCKS SEIBOLD

Harry “Socks ” Seibold played professional baseball for fourteen seasons, including eight in the major leagues.

 

SOCKS SEIBOLD Height: 5:08 Weight: 160 College: None
Harry M. Seibold Born: May 31, 1896 Died: Sep 21, 1965 Hometown: Philadelphia, Pa.
Played Major League Baseball REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year Team League     GA FGM  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS   AVG
1917-19 U.S. Army Military Service
1919-20 Philadelphia Baldwin PML 6 10 2 14 .143 2 22 3.7
1922-23 PHiladelphia St.Peter’s PBL 2 1 6 8 4.0
1923-24 South Philadelphia Arcadia AA Indep
1924-25 Philadelphia Kayoula PBL 1 0 1 1 1.000 0 1 1.0
1924-25 South Philadelphia Arcadia AA Indep
1925-26 Reading EBL 1 1 0 2 2.0
Major League Totals 4 2 7 11 2.8

 

SHERWOOD SEEKELL

SHERWOOD SEEKELL Height: 6:01 Weight: 165 College: CC Detroit
Sherwood Chester Seekell Born:  May 27, 1911 Died:  Feb 6, 1997 Hometown: Detroit, Mi.
REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year Team League     GA  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS   AVG
1930-31 Detroit Walker Sign Company Indep
1931-32 Detorit Indep
1932-33 Detroit Indep
1933-34 Detroit Indep
1934-35 City College of Detroit College
1935-36 Windsor MBC 3 1 9 11 3.7
Major League Totals 3 1 9 11 3.7

 

 

 

 

JERRY SEEDERS

 

JERRY SEEDERS Height: 6:00 Weight: 170 College: Pennsylvania’40
Gerald Floyd Seeders Born: Jan 7, 1917 Died:  Oct 4, 1958 Hometown: Pottstown, Pa.
REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year Team League     GA FGM  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS   AVG
1936-37 Pennsylvania (Frosh) College
1937-38 Pennsylvania College
1938-39 Pennsylvania College
1939-40 Pennsylvania College
1940-41 Norristown-Lancaster TCL 20 38 22 98 4.9
1941-46 U.S. Army MIlitary
1945-46 Wilmington ABL 1 1 1 3 3.0
1946-47 Norristown Senators MLL
1946-47 Potttown YMCA Indep
Major League Totals 1 1 1 3 3.0

 

WAYNE SEE

Wayne See was  was voted Player of the Year in the Border Conference for three years in a row. He was also named to the NAIB All-American team during his senior year. See played professional Basketball with the Waterloo Hawks for two seasons.

 

WAYNE SEE Height: 6:03 Weight: 190 College: Arizona State-Flagstaff’49
Marshall Wayne See Born: Nov 3, 1923 Died: Jil22, 2019 Hometown: Camp Verde, Az.
REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year Team League     GA FGM  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS   AVG
1941-42 Arizona State-Flagstaff College
1942-46 U.S. Marines Military Service
1945-46 Arizona State-Flagstaff College
1946-47 Arizona State-Flagstaff College
1947-48 Arizona State-Flagstaff College
1948-49 Arizona State-Flagstaff College
1949-50 Waterloo NBA 61 113 94 135 .696 143 320 5.2
1950-51 Waterloo NPBL 56 252 82 1333 .617 586 10.5
Major League Totals 117 365 176 268 .657 906 7.7

 

 

 

BARNEY SEDRAN

Barney Sedran was cut from the basketball team at De Witt Clinton High School in New York City because he was too small. While Sedran never grew beyond 5’3″ in height, he rose in stature to become one of the giants of the early professional game. Sedran developed his love for the game playing basketball in settlement-house leagues on New York’s Lower East Side. In one of these leagues, he met Marty Friedman with whom he enjoyed a remarkable professional partnership and a lifelong friendship. Sedran starred for three years at City College of New York  before he graduated in 1911.That fall, he began his professional career with Newburgh of the Hudson River League where he joined Marty Friedman. The “Heavenly Twins” has they became known, played three seasons with Utica of the New York State League where they won the 1913-14 championship. When the NYSL folded in January of 1915, Sedran and Friedman signed with a little-known team in Carbondale, Pennsylvania. They immediately embarked on a record- breaking thirty-five game win streak, that was finally broken only when Sedran missed a game to be in New York to attend his mother’s funeral. Contemporary accounts of Sedran’s play always praised his court- intelligence and courageous style. Fast and deceptive, Sedran was a great outside and inside shooter, smart passer, and great ball handler. He was always in motion, setting up plays that resulted in baskets. Veteran defender Allie McWilliams commented that guarding the 5’3″, 125-pound Sedran, was like guarding a mosquito. By 1920, Sedran was making over $10,000 a year playing basketball, an enormous sum at the time. During the 1920-21 season, he and Friedman led Albany to the NYSL title and Easthampton to the Interstate League title. The same season, he played with the team that Sedran himself described as the very best team he ever appeared with, the New York Whirlwinds. Along with Sedran and Friedman, the Whirlwinds featured Nat Holman, Chris Leonard, Ray Kennedy and Harry Riconda. Matched against the Original Celtics for the mythical pro title, Sedran led all scorers from the field as the Whirlwinds crushed the Celtics 40-24 in their first meeting. The Whirlwinds lost the second game by a basket and the third game was never played when Holman and Leonard jumped to the Celtics. The 1923-24 season saw the amiable split of the dozen-year partnership with Marty Freidman when Sedran was lured west to Fort Wayne, Indiana to captain the powerful Knights of Columbus squad. Sedran turned successfully to coaching in the ABL in the thirties and forties. He won two league championships at the helm of Wilmington in 1942 and 1944.

 

 

BARNEY SEDRAN Height: 5:03 Weight: 125 College: C.C.N.Y.’11
Bernard Sedran Born: Jan 28, 1891 Died:  Jan 14, 1969 Hometown: New York, NY
Benjamin Sedransky REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year Team League     GA FGM  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS   AVG
1907-08                   CCNY (FRosh) College
1908-09 C.C.NY College
1909-11 C.C.NY College
1910-11 C.C.NY College
1911-12 Newburgh HRL 23 56 2 114 5.0
1912-13 Utica NYSL 48 125 41 291 6.1
1913-14 Utica NYSL 60 177 90 444 7.4
1914-15 Utica NYSL 24 49 40 138 5.8
1914-15 Carbondale ICL 9 29 42 100 11.1 #
1915-16 Jasper EBL 39 55 404 626 .645 31 514 13.2
1915-16 Brooklyn IBL 4 8 11 27 6.8
1916-17 asper EBL 38 91 109 162 .673 22 291 7.7
1917-18 Jersey City CSL 6 12 8 32 5.3
1917-18 Carbondale–Wilkes-Barre PSL 45 87 84 8 258 5.7
1918-19 Bridgeport Blue Ribbons Indep
1918-19 State Island Standard Shipyard Indep
1919-20 Albany NYSL 36 73 58 204 5.7
1919-20 Passaic IBL 13 27 23 77 5.9
1919-20 Turner Falls IL 11 46 17 109 9.9
1919-20 New York Whirlwinds Indep
1919-20 Newark City AC Indep
1920-21 Albany NYSL 41 101 127 329 8.0
1920-21 Bridgeport CSL 2 5 4 14 7.0
1920-21 Easthampton IL 22 71 73 215 9.8
1920-21 Trenton PSL 1 2 2 6 6.0
1921-22 Mohawk–Cohoes–Albany NYSL 13 29 54 112 8.6
1921-22 Brooklyn Dodgers MBL 10 14 10 38 3.8
1921-22 New York EBL 2 3 6 7 .857 0 12 6.0
1921-22 Easthampton IL 22 58 46 162 7.4
1922-23 Albany NYSL 28 55 68 178 6.4
1922-23 Brooklyn Dodgers MBL 20 32 31 95 4.8
1922-23 Philadelphia EBL 11 18 27 56 .482 7 63 5.7
1922-23 Northampton IL 3 3 6 12 4.0
1923-24 Albany NYSL 1 3 0 6 6.0
1923-24 Yonkers MBL 4 3 0 6 1.5
1923-24 Canton Oscars Indep
1923-24 Fort Wayne KoC Indep
1924-25 Fort Wayne KoC Indep
1924-25 Cleveland Rosenblums Indep
1925-26 Indep
1926-27 Indep
1927-28 Utica All-Uticas Indep
Major League Totals 527 1203 1341 3747 7.1
POST SEASON RECORD
Year Team League     GA FGM  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS   AVG
1916-17 Jasper EBL 2 2 0 4 2.0
1920-21 Easthampton IL 4 13 8 34 8.5
1921 Albany WS 5 14 15 43 8.6
Major League Totals 11 29 23 81 7.4

JOHN SEBASTIAN

 

JOHN SEBASTIAN Height: 6:01 Weight: 185 College: Southern Illinois’47
John Thomas Sebastian Born:  Nov 20, 1921      Died:  Apr 26, 2003 Hometown: Odin, Ill.
REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year Team League     GA FGM  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS   AVG
1941-42 Southern Illinois College
1942-43 Southern Illinois College
1943-46 U.S. Navy Military Service
1946-47 Southern Illinois College
1947-48 St.Paul PBLA 8 6 3 5 .600 15 1.9
1947-48 Syracuse NBL 1 0 0 0 .000 0 0.0
1947-48 Detroit Vagabonds Indep
1948-49 Detroit–Hammond NBL 61 185 126 206 .612 496 8.1
1949-50 Detroit Vagabonds Indep
1950-51 Detroit Vagabonds Indep
1950-51 Boston Whirlwinds Indep
1950-51 New York Celtics Indep
1951-52 Boston Whirlwinds Indep
1951-52 Chicago Majors Indep
Major League Totals 70 191 129 211 .611 511 7.3
PLAYOFF RECORD
Year Team League     GA FGM  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS   AVG
1948-49 Hammond NBL 2 6 3 4 .750 15 7.5
Major League Totals 2 6 3 4 .750 15 7.5

ANDY SEARS

Andy Sears was a crusty, barrel-chested, balding, tough-as-nails player from Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. Sears began his basketball career with professional teams in Massachusetts and Connecticut. In 1907, he signed with the McKeesport team in the Central Basketball League. Sears distinguished himself as the team’s designated foul shooter, but the team finished a distant last in the league standings. The team was strengthened by the signings of Charley O’Donnell, Mio Boggio and (one year later) George Morris. Beginning with the 1908-09 season, the Sears-coached squad won four titles and finished second three times during the next eight seasons. McKeesport won back-to-back CBL titles in the 1909-10 and 10-11 seasons. When the CBL folded just prior to the start of the 1912-13 season, the team took over the moribund Reading franchise in the Eastern Basketball League and immediately captured the league title in their first season. In 1914-15, they were co-champions with Camden. Sears played the game with a controlled fury, seemingly on the on the verge of throttling someone at any moment. In an era of very rough, physical basketball, punctuated by many fights, Sears led a team that prided itself on its defense and its ability to subdue opponents by intimidation. For many seasons, Sears was considered the best all-round player in EBL. There were better defenders and more talented offensive stars, but no other player in the league combined the two skills as well as Sears. He and backcourt teammate George Morris led the league’s stingiest defense, while Sears ranked among the league’s most accurate shooters from the field and the free-throw line. Sears wrapped up his nineteen year pro basketball career back in Massachusetts with two seasons playing for Springfield in the Interstate League.

 

ANDY SEARS Height: 5:09 Weight: 175 College: None
Andrew Francis Sears Born: Jan 7, 1886         Died: Feb 16, 1930 Hometown: Chicopee Falls, Mass.
REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year Team League     GA FGM  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS AVG
1902-03 Holyoke CMBL 19 23 0 46 2.4
1903-04 Holyoke WMBL 44 61 21 143 3.3
1903-04 Williamantic CSL 5 12 0 24 4.8
1904-05 New Bedford/Amesbury NEBL 23 50 0 100 4.3
1904-05 Williamantic CSL 22 50 36 136 6.2
1904-05 Bristol (Ct) Delphis Indep
1905-06 Bristol (Ct) Delphis Indep
1906-07 Bristol (Ct) Delphis Indep
1907-08 McKeesport CBL 69 136 640 912 13.2
1908-09 McKeesport CBL 67 159 658 976 14.6
1909-10 McKeesport CBL 70 160 925 1471 .629 1245 17.8
1910-11 McKeesport CBL 67 169 924 1416 .653 1262 18.8
1911-12 Uniontown CBL 65 175 905 1369 .661 1255 19.3
1912-13 Reading EBL 34 70 468 22 608 17.9
1913-14 Reading EBL 37 76 476 16 628 17.0
1914-15 Reading EBL 38 77 503 12 657 17.3
1915-16 Reading EBL 40 70 519 764 .679 13 659 16.5
1915-16 Danbury Woosters Indep 1 1 14 16 16.0
1916-17 Reading EBL 32 43 424 601 .705 18 510 15.9
1917-18 Reading EBL 2 1 6 2 8 4.0
1917-18 Carbondale PSL 3 3 1 7 2.3
1917-18 Holyoke All-Holyoke Indep
1917-18 Springfield Red Tops Indep
1918-19 Springfield Red Tops Indep
1919-20 Springfield IL 9 6 56 68 7.6
1920-21 Springfield IL 12 10 14 34 2.8
Major League Totals 631 1289 6540 9118 14.5
POST SEASON RECORD
Year Team League     GA FGM  FTM   FTA  PCT.  AST  PTS AVG
1910-11 Mckeesport WS 3 12 48 72 24.0
1912-13 Reading WS 5 4 68 76 15.2
Major League Totals 8 16 116 148 18.5