| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - ayers and promoters of teams in New York, Washington, Chicago, Pittsburgh and other large cities saw the benefits of sharing gate receipts, and staging lucrative games against all-white teams.One of the biggest such contests of the era was the inaugural 1939 World Professional Basketball Tournament, in which the New York Renaissance, aka Rens, defeated the Oshkosh All-Stars, the champions of the w
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