10 Facts About Sid Tanenbaum

Sidney Harold Tanenbaum was an American professional basketball player.

Sid Tanenbaum went on to play professionally for the New York Knicks and the Baltimore Bullets.

Sid Tanenbaum was an all-scholastic player at Thomas Jefferson High School.

Sid Tanenbaum met his wife, Bobbie Wolfson, in college when he was a junior.

Sid Tanenbaum won the 1947 Bar Kochba Award, which honored him as the best Jewish American athlete in the nation, and was named first team All-Met in all four of his varsity seasons.

Sid Tanenbaum played two seasons in the Basketball Association of America as a member of the New York Knicks and Baltimore Bullets.

Sid Tanenbaum scored 633 points in 70 games and tallied 162 assists.

Sid Tanenbaum was inducted into the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame, and in 1997 into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

Sid Tanenbaum owned a machine shop specializing in metal spinning and stamping in Far Rockaway, Queens, known as the Able Metal Spinning and Stamping.

Sid Tanenbaum was murdered on September 4,1986, aged 60, when he was stabbed to death by a local 37-year-old woman in his shop.