10 Facts About Ben Goldfaden

Benjamin Paul Goldfaden was an American professional basketball player.

Ben Goldfaden began playing basketball in Detroit during his early years due to his height.

Ben Goldfaden attended South Side High School in Newark, New Jersey, where he was an all-state team selection in 1933.

Ben Goldfaden was so highly recruited during his teenage years that he was pursued by Catholic and other sectarian prep schools despite that he was Jewish.

Ben Goldfaden was paid to play for barnstorming teams in exhibition games as a 16-year-old that would have marred his amateur status and disqualified him from playing college basketball.

Ben Goldfaden played collegiately for the George Washington Colonials on an athletic scholarship.

Ben Goldfaden quit playing basketball at the age of 33 to become a physical education teacher as its salary of US$2,000 was better than his basketball career.

Ben Goldfaden worked 20 years as an agent for Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance and served as a city recreation director in Maryland.

Ben Goldfaden died of congestive heart failure, aged 99, in Tavares, Florida.

Ben Goldfaden was believed to be the oldest living former National Basketball Association player at the time of his death.