Leon Monde
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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] Monde was a veteran of Negro league baseball,[4][5] and was one of the first players for the Rens.[6][7] In 1922, the Metropolitan Basketball Association (MBA) ordered Monde's suspension from the Rens (then competing under their original name, the Spartan Braves) for having played baseball professionally,[8] but the team refused.[9] In 1963, the New York Renaissance franchise was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.[10]
Monde's draft registration card of June 1917 listed his residence as being on Cleveland Street in Brooklyn and was employed as a "machine hand".[1] In April 1930, Monde and his wife moved from Brooklyn to Eatontown, New Jersey.[11] In 1931, he started a business of tea and coffee.[2]
