{{Short description|American basketball player and coach (1902–1981)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Tubby Raskin | image = | image_size = | caption = | number = | position = | height_ft = 5 | height_in = 8 | height_footnote = | weight_lb = 165 | weight_footnote = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|1|8}} | birth_place = The Bronx, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1981|9|9|1902|1|8}} | death_place = Tucson, Arizona, U.S. | high_school = DeWitt Clinton<br>(The Bronx, New York) | college = CCNY (1919–1922) | career_start = | career_end = | career_position = | career_number = | coach_start = | coach_end = | years1 = 1925–1926 | team1 = Brooklyn Arcadians | years2 = | team2 = | cyears1 = | cteam1 = | cyears2 = | cteam2 = | cyears3 = | cteam3 = | cyears4 = | cteam4 = | cyears5 = | cteam5 = | cyears6 = | cteam6 = | cyears7 = | cteam7 = | cyears8 = | cteam8 = | cyears9 = | cteam9 = | cyears10 = | cteam10 = | highlights = | stat1label = | stat1value = | stat2label = | stat2value = | stat3label = | stat3value = | stats_league = | bbr = | cstats_league1 = | cwin1 = | closs1 = | cstats_league2 = | cwin2 = | closs2 = | cstats_league3 = | cwin3 = | closs3 = | cstats_league4 = | cwin4 = | closs4 = | cstats_league5 = | cwin5 = | closs5 = }} '''Morris "Tubby" Raskin''' (Hebrew: מוריס "טאבי" רסקין; January 8, 1902 &ndash; September 9, 1981) was an American basketball player and coach.<ref name="auto">{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://probasketballencyclopedia.com/player/tubby-raskin/|title=TUBBY RASKIN|encyclopedia=Pro Basketball Encyclopedia}}</ref> He played for the Brooklyn Arcadians in the American Basketball League (ABL). He later coached the men's basketball team at Brooklyn College, the Hartford Hurricanes in the ABL, the Israel men's national basketball team for Israel at the 1952 Summer Olympics, and the U.S. basketball team to a gold medal in the 1953 Maccabiah Games.

==Early years== Raskin was born and grew up in the Bronx in New York City, and was Jewish.<ref name="auto"/> He was {{convert|5|ft|8|in|m|abbr=on}}, and weighed {{convert|165|lb|kg}}.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newspapers.lib.sfu.ca/mcc-cjr-27591/page-20|title=The Jewish Athlete|work=Canadian Jewish Review|date= September 24, 1926| page= 20 }}</ref> He starred in baseball and basketball at DeWitt Clinton High School, in the Bronx.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto2">{{Cite web|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1921/03/17/103561562.html?pageNumber=21|title=C.C.N.Y. ELECTS CAPTAIN.; Tubby Raskin to Lead Lavender Basketball Team Next Season.|website=The New York Times|date=March 17, 1921}}</ref>

At City College of New York, Raskin was a member of the varsity basketball team in 1919–22, played on the varsity football team as its quarterback and kicker, and was the regular first baseman and a pitcher on the baseball team.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bXJgqTXTelsC&q=%22tubby+raskin%22&pg=PA283|title=This Day in New York Sports|first1=Jordan|last1=Sprechman|first2=Bill|last2=Shannon|date= 1998|publisher=Sports Publishing LLC|isbn=9781571672544}}</ref><ref name="auto2"/><ref name="auto"/> Raskin became a member of the basketball team in 1919–20, when Nat Holman became CCNY's head basketball coach.<ref name="auto"/> That season, the CCNY Beavers had a record of 13–3.<ref name="auto"/> The next year, he was elected captain of the basketball team as a junior, and City College had a record of 11–4.<ref name="auto2"/><ref name="auto"/> As a senior in the 1921–22 season, he was captain of the team, led them to a 10–2 record, and was also captain of the baseball team.<ref name="auto"/><ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/06/09/86441391.html?pageNumber=32 "Raskin to Coach Kingsmen"], ''The New York Times'', June 9, 1950.</ref> He was elected to the CCNY Hall of Fame.<ref>Murray M. Horowitz (1981). [https://books.google.com/books?id=GumeAAAAMAAJ&q=%22tubby+raskin%22 ''Brooklyn College, the First Half-century'']</ref>

==Career== ===As a player, and soldier=== After he graduated from CCNY in 1922, Raskin played independent basketball in New York City. In 1925–26, he played for the Brooklyn Arcadians in the American Basketball League (ABL).<ref name="auto"/> During World War II, he took a leave of absence and served as a lieutenant in the US Army Air Force from 1942 to 1944.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1944/09/16/85160907.html?pageNumber=19|title=RASKIN TO COACH QUINTET; Brooklyn College to Open Drills Soon Under New Mentor|website=The New York Times|date=September 16, 1944}}</ref>

===As a coach=== ====In the United States==== Raskin coached the Brooklyn Bulldogs basketball team at Brooklyn College in 1944–45, 1950-53 (replacing Al Baggett), and 1960–62.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/06/09/86441391.html|title=Raskin to Coach Kingsmen|date=June 9, 1950|website=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/12/06/89477279.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|title=NEW TALENT AIDS BROOKLYN COLLEGE; DISCUSSING STRATEGY FOR KINGSMEN'S CONTEST TONIGHT|date=December 6, 1941|website=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/coaches/tubby-raskin-1.html|title=Tubby Raskin Coaching Record|website=College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=http://peachbasketsociety.blogspot.com/2017/10/tubby-raskin.html|title=Tubby Raskin|work=Peach Basket Society|date=October 25, 2017}}</ref> In 1950-51 he also coached the Brooklyn College tennis team.<ref>[http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/awweb/awarchive?type=file&item=721622 "Sports"], ''American Jewish Outlook'', March 17, 1950.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1951/03/26/84842946.html?pageNumber=29|title=Brooklyn Netmen Drill Today|date=March 26, 1951|website=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/12/10/96487036.html?pageNumber=13|title=Raskin Kingsmen's Net Coach|website=The New York Times|date=December 10, 1949}}</ref>

He also coached the Cohoes Mastadons in the New York State Professional Basketball League in 1946–47.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto1"/> He coached the Hartford Hurricanes in the ABL in 1948–50.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="auto1"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19491102&id=uU81AAAAIBAJ&sjid=oIEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=603,301613&hl=en|title=New England Expects 2 Fine ABL Teams|work=Schenectady Gazette |date=November 2, 1949}}</ref>

====Internationally==== Raskin was the coach of the Israel men's national basketball team that played for Israel at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/04/11/84309689.html?pdf_redirect=true&site=false|title=Raskin to Coach Israeli Five|website=The New York Times|date=April 11, 1952}}</ref><ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/2400399|title= Tubby Raskin|website=Olympedia}}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=irgnN6jsu84C&dq=מוריס+רסקין&pg=PA452 ''במגרש המשחקים: ספורט וחברה'' ''בתחילת האלף השלישי''], 2009.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/dav/1952/06/06/01/article/149|title=⁨‭07090_^‬ אנו הולכים לאולימפיאדה ⁩ &#124; ⁨דבר⁩ &#124; 6 יוני 1952 &#124; אוסף העיתונות &#124; הספרייה הלאומית|website=www.nli.org.il}}</ref>

The following year he coached the U.S. basketball team to a gold medal in the 1953 Maccabiah Games.<ref name="auto"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/05/08/84400551.html?pageNumber=35|title=Raskin to Coach U. S. Quintet|date=May 8, 1953|website=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1953/09/29/issue.html|title=Late U.S. Basket Tops Israel, 25-23|date=September 29, 1953|website=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/?a=p&d=hbkr19530802-01.1.3&l=he&p=recaptcha|title=הורד PDF &mdash; הספרייה הלאומית של ישראל │ עיתונים|website=www.nli.org.il}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/?a=p&d=hbkr19520427-01&l=he&p=recaptcha|title=הורד PDF &mdash; הספרייה הלאומית של ישראל │ עיתונים|website=www.nli.org.il}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=irgnN6jsu84C&q=%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A1+%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%9F&pg=PA452|title=במגרש המשחקים: ספורט וחברה בתחילת האלף השלישי|first=יאיר|last=גלילי|date=June 1, 2009|publisher=Open University of Israel|isbn=9789650610265|via=Google Books}}</ref>

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