After Ebbets Field was demolished, a minor league football team named the Brooklyn Dodgers was established in 1966, with Jackie Robinson as general manager.
Al Verssen, a high school math teacher and print shop owner from Greenpoint, owned the Brooklyn Dodgers basketball team.
Verssen's operation was small-scale, with him often working the door at Brooklyn College’s Roosevelt Hall gymnasium, where the team played most of its home games on Sunday evenings.
This began a year earlier when the Anchorage Northern Knights joined the EBA and agreed to cover the travel costs for Eastern teams to make one trip per season to Alaska.
Due to the increased financial demands and the league's expansion plans, the Brooklyn Dodgers basketball team ceased operations in 1978.