The Staten Island Basketball League (www.sibl.us) is speeding to the half century mark, and there’s no doubt it will get there.
The league, which was founded by Staten Islander Craig Raucher in 1980, recently turned 43 years old and has played all these years at PS 8 in Great Kills, at 85 this is one of the oldest public Schools on the Island. The school is run by principal Lisa Esposito, who have given Raucher and his crew a place to play all these years.
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“It’s one of the very few gyms left with the original wooden backboards intact,” noted Raucher, the league’s commissioner who despite being age 71 and having gone through two knee replacements and other various surgeries, still participates in the twice-a-week league (Wednesday nights and Saturday mornings) with men half his age and he holds his own.
