Pottsville Packers stock certificate c1947 (Pennsylvania) - basketball

Minor league PA basketball. Nice vignette of an eagle perched with wings spread. Unissued and not cancelled. Circa 1947. Measures approximately 11 by 8.5 inches. 

The Pottsville Packers were a minor league professional basketball team that played in the Eastern Professional Basketball League (EPBL), later the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), primarily in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, from the late 1940s to early 1950s, known for winning championships and featuring notable players before eventually moving and changing names.

Years Active (as Packers):
Roughly 1947 to 1952, evolving from the Binghamton Triplets. Folded and moved to Wilkes-Barre in 1953.

The Binghamton Triplets was a short-lived professional basketball team in the Continental Basketball Association. It began as one of six founding teams of the Eastern Professional Basketball League (EPBL) for the 1946-47 season. The teamed moved to Pottsville, Pennsylvania in the middle of its first season and changed its name to the Pottsville Packers for the 1947-48 season. The team moved again before the 1952-53 season to Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to become the Wilkes-Barre Aces and folded after four games into the season.

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