Boxed Out of the NBA: Remembering the Eastern Professional Basketball League

This book tells the story of the Eastern Professional Basketball League, a pro basketball institution for over 30 years. The league featured top players who just couldn’t make the NBA--many because of scandals or because of unofficial quotas on Black players--with games played in tiny gyms across the northeast.

Syl Sobel is the author of five children’s books on U.S. history and government. He is an award-winning journalist, attorney, contributor to the op ed page of various newspapers, and was for many years the director of publications for a federal government agency. Jay Rosenstein was a reporter for the newspaper American Banker and a financial writer for a federal government agency for many years. He now writes books for adults and children. The authors grew up together in Scranton, PA, home to one of the Eastern League’s anchor franchises, the Scranton Miners and Apollos. Rosenstein was a statistician for the team.