Spring Premier Auction 2016
Wed, Apr 6, 2016 08:00PM EDT - Sun, Apr 24, 2016 11:00AM EDT
Timed Auction
Lot 1003
1950'S WICHITA VICKERS (NIBL) WARM-UP JACKET AND PANTS
Sold for
$1,562.40
Sold Price includes BP
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The National Industrial Basketball League was founded in 1947 to enable U.S. mill workers a chance to compete in basketball. The league was founded by the industrial teams (teams sponsored by the large companies and made up of their employees) belonging to the National Basketball League (NBL) that did not join the National Basketball Association when the NBL merged with the Basketball Association of America. The leagues first year 194748 featured five teams in an eight-game schedulethe Milwaukee Harnischfegers (which won the round robin schedule with an 8-0 record) Peoria Cats Milwaukee Allen-Bradleys Akron Goodyear Wingfoots and Fort Wayne General Electrics. The following season with a 16-game schedule the new lineup was league champion Bartlesville Phillips 66ers (15-1 record) Denver Chevies Peoria Cats Akron Goodyear Wingfoots and Milwaukee Allen-Bradleys.
In the 1949-50 season with the addition of the Dayton Industrialists making the league a six-team circuit the Phillips 66ers repeated as champions. The league expanded again in the 1950-51 season to eight teams adding the Oakland Blue 'n Gold Atlas and San Francisco Stewart Chevrolets. The Dayton team became the Dayton Air Gems and the Phillips 66ers repeated for their third consecutive title.
This lot features a 1950s Wichita Vickers fleece warm-up jacket and pants. Vickers Petroleum was an oil company founded by John A. (Jack) Vickers Sr. In 1918. Vickers established a refinery in Potwin Kansas. By the 1950s Vickers had 300 employees controlled a chain of 300 service stations in an area from Iowa to Colorado and fielded the Wichita Vickers an Amateur Athletic Union basketball team playing in the National Industrial Basketball League. The team was successful winning a share of the 1957-58 league championship. Vickers discontinued its team sponsorship in 1960 due to competition with the NBA for players.
The red micro-fiber plush fleece is in remarkably good condition given its age. The button-down warmup jackets front left breast area is sporting an embroidered AAU Champion patch while the back boasts an oversized Vickers team logo patch. On the inside right tail can be found the proper manufacturers tags from both Wichita Sporting Goods and Rawlings [size 42]. A small hole exists in the right shoulder area. The accompanying size 36 red micro-fiber plush fleece breakaway pants are in good shape as well and include the same proper tags on the inside rear waistband.
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