New York Renaissance (Basketball team)

LC control no.	no 99016874
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	New York Renaissance (Basketball team) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Renaissance (Basketball team) New York Rens (Basketball team) Rens (Basketball team) New York Renaissance Five (Basketball team) Original Renaissance Five (Basketball team)
Other standard no.	137527507 Q933763
Associated country	United States
Associated place	New York (N.Y.)
Located	Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activity	Basketball
Affiliation	Harlem Renaissance Ballroom
Special note	Not same as: New York Renaissance Band (no 93002613), American musical group founded in 1973.
Found in	The New York Renaissance professional black basketball team, 1923-1950, 1996: p. 1, etc. (professional black-owned, all-black basketball team; played first game Nov. 3, 1923; named the New York Renaissance after the Renaissance Casino in Harlem, New York in return for practice and playing space; the team shortened the name to the "Rens"; also called the New York Rens; the New York Renaissance Five; the Renaissance; the team played its last game Mar. 31, 1949; in May of 1949, the Rens became a secondary team to the Harlem Globetrotters; after integration of professional basketball, the Rens were reorganized as the "Original Renaissance Five" and played in and around New York City from Fall 1952-mid-1950s) Padwe, Sandy. Basketball's hall of fame, ©1970: page 193 (New York Rens; Not until Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball in 1946 were black athletes accepted in organized professional sport ... The New York Rens were regarded as the best basketball team in the United States from 1932-1936 (won 473 games and lost 49 during that period); Organized in 1922 by Bob Douglas; team finally broken up in 1948-1949) Wikipedia, 8 Nov. 2024 (The New York Renaissance, also known as the Renaissance Big R Five and as the Rens, were the first black-owned, all-black, fully-professional basketball team in history, established in October 1923, by Robert "Bob" Douglas. They were named after the Renaissance Casino and Ballroom through an agreement with its owner, in return for the use of that facility as their home court. The Casino and Ballroom (at 138th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem) was an entertainment complex that included a ballroom, which served as the Rens' home court; The Renaissance are also the topic of the 2011 documentary On the Shoulders of Giants) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Renaissance>
Associated language	eng