:Sorry, the article refers to 1939.  So where does this date come from?  Not the team site, nor the league's.  A Google search returns the number in a couple places, but those could well have originated here.  There are some old references on other wikis, since corrected (vandalism?).  APBR only lists 1946 on.  So can anybody shed light on this?   SixFourThree