The 1937–38 Brooklyn Visitations season was their seventeenth professional basketball season in Brooklyn, New York, as well as their fifth season in what would be the revived version of the American Basketball League (though if one were to include the original ABL seasons they played in with the revived version of the ABL, the Visitations would appear in eight total seasons (seven full total seasons) within the combined operations of the American Basketball League instead). For the last time in the Visitations' history within the revived version of the ABL, this season would see the ABL utilize the split season format once again with the Brooklyn Visitations staying in Brooklyn for the entire season, though this season originally saw seven teams competing in the revived league this time around before it decreased down to six teams by the start of the second half of the season once the basketball version of the New York Yankees ended up leaving the ABL by the end of the first half of the season. On that note, despite this team not having future Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer Bobby McDermott on the team at all, during the first half of the season, the Visitations would end that half of the season with an above-average 13–10 record, which would be the last time they would finish a half of a season with a winning record. However, that record would still end up placing them behind the New Haven / New York Jewels and the Jersey Reds during this half season. Worse yet, the second half of the season would see the Visitations perform even worse as a team somehow, as they would only win two total games for that half of the season for a very poor 2–15 for a dead last finish to end the season on a poor note. Because Brooklyn failed to win the first half of the season in spite of their poor record for the second half of the season, the Visitations would fail to qualify for the ABL championship series once again.
Roster Due to information on American Basketball League players being generally hard to find, there are bound to be more gaps and/or inaccuracies found in certain areas on the team's roster spots than usual.
American Basketball League Standings +First HalfTeamWinsLossesWinning %Jersey Reds166.727New Haven Jewels / New York Jewels128.600Brooklyn Visitations1310.565Philadelphia SPHAs1210.545New York (Original) Celtics1110.524Kingston Colonials515.250New York Yankees111.083 +Second HalfTeamWinsLossesWinning %New York Jewels145.737Jersey Reds137.650Philadelphia SPHAs119.550Kingston Colonials99.500New York (Original) Celtics711.389Brooklyn Visitations215.118
Notes Before the season began, the Brooklyn Jewels moved from Brooklyn, New York to New Haven, Connecticut to become the New Haven Jewels to start out the season. However, on November 30, 1937, the team moved back from New Haven to Brooklyn to once again return to their original New York Jewels name for the rest of the season. The New York Yankees basketball team would drop out of the ABL on January 11, 1938 during the first half of the season.
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