Leon Monde (New York City; January 8, 1895 – after May 1931)[1][2] was an American basketball player for the New York Renaissance (commonly known as the "Rens"),[3] one of the dominant basketball teams of the 1920s and 1930s. Monde was a veteran of Negro league baseball,[4][5] and was one of the first players for the Rens.[6] In 1922, the Metropolitan Basketball Association (MBA) ordered his suspension from the Rens (then competing under their original name, the Spartan Braves) for having played baseball professionally,[7] but the team refused.[8] In 1963, the New York Renaissance franchise was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.[9]
Monde's draft registration card of June 1917 listed his residence as being on Cleveland Street in Brooklyn.[1] He was employed as a "machine hand" and was supporting his mother, his wife, and a 14-year-old relative.[1] In April 1930, The New York Age noted that Monde and his wife moved from Brooklyn to Eatontown, New Jersey.[10] In 1931, Monde went into business selling tea and coffee.[2]
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