BILL ROBERTS		Height:	6:09		Weight:	210			College:		Wyoming’46
William Joseph Roberts		Born:  Mar 13, 1925			Died Jan 23, 2016				Hometown:		Fort Wayne, In.
			REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1944-45	Notre Dame	College
2945-46	Wyoming	College
1946-47	Wyoming	College
1947-48	Atlanta	PBLA	8	27	8	14	.571		62	7.8
1947-48	Saratoga	NYSL	33						558	16.9
1948-49	Chicago–Boston–St.Louis	BAA	50	89	44	63	.698	41	222	4.4
1949-50	St.Louis	NBA	67	77	28	39	.718	24	182	2.7
1950-51	Scranton	ABL	1	1	3	3	1.000		5	5.0
1950-51	Louisville	NPBL	19	32	8	23	.348		72	3.8
	Major League Totals		144	225	88	139	.633		538	3.7
				PLAYOFF RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1947-48	Saratoga	NYSL	2						30	15.0
1948-49	St.Louis	NBA	2	10	2	5	.400	2	22	11.0
	Major League Totals		2	10	2	5	.400	2	22	11.0

Michael Rabice was born in Utica, New York to parents that had recently emigrated from Italy to the United States. His name was later anglicized to Mike Roberts In 1907, Roberts In 1917,  began his professional basketball career with the Schenectady Continentals. In 1909, Frank Basloe signed Roberts to play for his Herkimer team in the Mohawk Valley League. Roberts was one the first greatest  “running” guards in the nearly years of professional basketball .  He handled the lumpy, misshapened basketballs of the era with aplomb and was a accurate shooter who always served as a team’s designated shooter in an era when one player shot all of a team’s  free throws. Roberts’s combination of  talent and charisma made him one of the most popular early basketball stars. For over a decade,  Roberts joined Basloe’s Globe Trotters  on their annual 80-100 game junkets into the midwest. In 1921, Roberts signed a lucrative contract as player -coach for a team in Muscatine, Iowa.

 

MIKE ROBERTS		Height:	5:08		Weight:	165			College:		None
aka Mike Rabice		Born:  Feb 26, 1887			Died:  Jun 29, 1974				Hometown:		Utica, NY
Mark Anthony Roberts			REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1906-07
1907-08	Schenectady Continentals	Indep
1907-08	Herkimer	MVL
1908-09	Utica 18th Separate Co.	Indep
1909-10	Utica	MVL
1910-11	Herkimer	Indep
1911-12	Utica	NYSL	7	4	7				15	2.1
1912-13	Oswego Indians	Indep
1913-14	Oswego Indians	Indep
1913-14	Syracuse	NYSL	8	16	9				41	5.1
1914-15	Oswego Indians	Indep
1914-15	Utica Celtics	Indep
1915-16	Basloe Globe Trotters	Indep
1915-16	Oswego Giants	Indep
1915-16	Utica	NYSL	18	24	23				71	3.9
1916-17	Utica	NYSL	15	14	15				43	2.9
1916-17	Basloe Globetrotters	Indep
1917-18	Frankfort Indians	Indep
1917-18	Basloe Globetrotters	Indep
1918-19	Basloe Globetrotters	Indep
1919-20	Utica–Mohawk	NYSL	7	1	7				9	1.3
1919-20	Basloe Globetrotters	Indep
1920-21	Basloe Globetrotters	Indep
1921-22	Muscatine (Ia)	Indep
1922-23	Basloe Globetrotters	Indep
	Major League Totals		55	59	61				179	3.3

 

 

 

JOHN ROBERTS		Height:	6:02		Weight:				College:		None
John Eli Roberts Jr.		Born: Nov 4, 1893				Died:	Apr 9,1941		Hometown:		Utica, NY
			REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1914-15	Utica Celtics	Indep
1915-16	Utica Celtics	Indep
1916-17	Utica	NYSL	1	0	0				0	0.0
1919-20	Amsterdam	NYSL	1	1	1				3	3.0
	Major League Totals		2	1	1				3	1.5

Glenn Roberts is considered by historians to be one of the first players to successfully use the jump shot on a regular basis. Roberts played varsity basketball for four years at Emory and Henry College, a small school located in the state of Virginia. He scored 2,014 points in 104 games, an average of 19.4 point per game – a very big number in an era when most college teams averaged only 35-40 points a game. Roberts was a Helms Foundation All-American in 1935. He had modest success in his abbreviated pro career. In 1939, he briefly played for the Akron Goodyear team in the National Basketball League. Roberts remained employed by the company until 1963 when he resigned to go into business for himself.  At the time of his death in 1980, he was the third largest Firestone dealer in the country.

 

GLENN ROBERTS		Height:	6:05		Weight:		200		College:		Emory & Henry(Va)’35
Glenn Edward Roberts		Born: Oct 25, 1912			Died: May 21, 1980				Hometown:		Pound, Va.
			REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1931-32	Emory & Henry	College
1932-33	Emory & Henry	College
1933-34	Emory & Henry	College
1934-35	Emory & Henry	College
1935-36	Bonny Blue Cardinals	Indep
1936-37	St.Paul Independents	Indep
1937-38	Dayton	NBL	8	14	11				39	4.9
1937-38	Norton Kiwanians	Indep
1938-39	Akron Firestones	NBL	15	20	6				46	3.1
1939-40	Akron Firestones	Indep
1941-42	Toledo	NBL	1	1	0				2	2.0
1941-42	Akron National Opticals	Indep
	Major League Totals		24	35	17				87	3.6
				PLAYOFF RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1938-39	Akron Firestones	NBL	2	0	1				1	0.5
	Major League Totals		2	0	1				1	0.5

 

 

WILLIE ROACH		Height:	6:00		Weight:		195		College:		None
William Danforth Roach		Born:   May 2, 1907			Died:  Sep, 1986				Hometown:		Syracuse, NY
			REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1927-28	Syracuse All-Americans	Indep
1928-29	Syracuse All-Americans	Indep		30	21				81
1929-30	Syracuse	ABL	2	0	0				0	0.0
	Major League Totals		2	0	0				0	0.0

Wilbur “Roxey” Roach played professional baseball for fourteen years. He appeared in the major leagues during three seasons with his longest stint being in 1910 when he played  in 70 games for the New York Yankees.

 

WILBUR ROACH		Height:	5:11		Weight:		160		College:		None
Wilbur Charles Roach		Born:	Nov 28, 1882			Died: Dec 26, 1947			Hometown:		Anita, Pa.
Roxey Roach			REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1908-09	Uniontown–Johnstown	CBL	23	19	0				38	1.7
	Major League Totals		23	19	0				38	1.7

EDDIE ROACH		Height:	5:09		Weight:		145		College:		None
Edward J. Roach		Born:  Oct 27, 1887			Died:	Apr 4, 1952			Hometown:		Yonkers, NY
			REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1904-05	New York Xavier AC	AAU
1905-06	New York Xavier AC	AAU
1906-07	Winsted (Ct)	Indep
1907-08	Yonkers 4th St. Separates	Indep
1907-08	New York All Stars	Indep
1907-08	New York St.Peter’s	Indep
1908-09	Jersey City Palace Five	Indep
1908-09	West Hoboken Liberty Five	Indep
1908-09	Yonkers Fouth Separates	Indep
1909-10	Yonkers	HRL	23	33	11				77	3.3
1909-10	Newburgh All Stars	Indep
1910-11	Yonkers	HRL	34	26	48				100	2.9
1911-12	Yonkers	HRL	16	14	22				50	3.1
1912-13	Kingston	NYSL	9	17	13				47	5.2
1913-14	Kingston	NYSL	1	0	0				0	0.0
1914-15	Bridgeport Blue Ribbons	Indep	21	29	0				58	2.8
1915-16	Jersey City	IBL	31	18	46				82	2.6
1915-16	Newark	ECBL	1	2	0				4	4.0
1915-16	Bridgeport Blue Ribbons	Indep	1	2	0				4	4.0
1916-17	Danbury–Newark National Turners	IBL	37	25	51				101	2.7
1917-18	Ansonia	CSL	1	1	2				4	4.0
1919-20	Ansonia	IBL	1	1	1				3	3.0
1919-20	Reading–Trenton	PSL	14	9	14	47	.298	7	32	2.3
1920-21	Ansonia	CBL	1	1	0				2	2.0
1921-22	Brooklyn Dodgers	MBL	1	1	1				3	3.0
1922-23	New York MacDowell	MBL	2	0	1				1	0.5
1923-24	Bridgeport Blue Ribbons	Indep
	Major League Totals		172	146	210				502	2.9

 

 

JERRY RIZZO		Height:	5:08		Weight:		160		College:		Fordham’40
Jerome P. Rizzo		Born:  Mar 12, 1918			Died:   Aug 27, 2011				Hometown:		Queens, NY
					REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1938-39	Fordham (Frosh)	College
1939-40	Fordham	College
1940-41	Fordham	College
1940-41	Cohoes	NYSL	2	9	5				23	11.5
1941-42	Kingston	NYSL	15	38	43				119	7.9
1942-45	U.S. Army	Military Service
1945-46	Paterson	ABL	31	88	96				272	8.8
1946-47	Syracuse	NBL	44	155	169	238	.710		479	10.9
1947-48	Syracuse	NBL	60	160	217	303	.716		537	9.0
1948-49	Syracuse	NBL	45	67	106	150	.707		240	5.3
1948-49	Saratoga/Schenectady	NYSL	9						70	7.8
1949-50	Bridgeport	ABL	35	67	110	149	.738	29	244	7.0
1950-51	Bridgeport	ABL	31	71	94	155	.606	51	236	7.6
1951-52	Bridgeport	ABL	4	4	8				16	4.0
1952-53	Middletown	ABL	6	3	3				9	1.5
	Major League Totals		180	470	588				1528	8.5
					PLAYOFF RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1946-47	Syracuse	NBL	4	16	19	26	.731		51	12.8
1946-47	Syracuse	WBT	1	2	5	9	.556		9	9.0
1947-48	Syracuse	NBL	3	6	16	18	.889		28	9.3
1948-49	Syracuse	NBL	6	13	18	22	.818		44	7.3
	Major League Totals		14	37	58	75	.773		132	9.4