STATISTICS & HISTORY
Seymour “Swede” Masin was a legendary scholastic athlete at Weequahic High School in Newark, New Jersey. After graduating from high school, Masin enrolled at Panzer College, a teacher’s college in nearby East Orange. At Panzer, Masin starred in three sports. He set shot put records in track and field, was named an All-American in soccer and led the basketball team to forty-four straight winning games—an all-time collegiate record at the time. Masin was the inspiration for the main character, Seymour “Swede” Levov, in Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel American Pastoral.
| SWEDE MASIN | Height: | 6:01 | Weight: | 195 | College: | Panzer’42 | |||||
| Seymour Masin | Born: | Jun 7, 1920 | Died: Sep 10, 2005 | Hometown: | Newark, NJ | ||||||
| REGULAR SEASON RECORD | |||||||||||
| Year | Team | League | GA | FGM | FTM | FTA | PCT. | AST | PTS | AVG | |
| 1939140 | Panzer | College | |||||||||
| 1940-41 | Panzer | College | |||||||||
| 1941-42 | Panzer | College | |||||||||
| 1942-43 | New York–Harrisburg | ABL | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1.3 | ||||
| 1942-43 | New York Celtics | Indep | |||||||||
| 1942-46 | Military Service | ||||||||||
| 1946-47 | Newark | ABL | 7 | 9 | 9 | 27 | 3.9 | ||||
| 1946-47 | Troy | NYSL | 3 | 10 | 3.3 | ||||||
| Major League Totals | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1.3 | ||||||