Over the course of its 35-year history, the Staten Island Basketball League has thrived under the leadership of Commissioner Craig Raucher. Players in the pick-up style, fee-based league range in age from 25 to 65 with an average age of 45. Many of them are experienced high school and college players who never lost their love for the game. Craig Raucher, an executive in the transportation sector, has devoted countless hours of his free time to developing what many players have described as “basketball heaven” for mature sportsmen craving both the excitement of intense competition and the comfort of indoor hardwood court.

1. PLAYERS PRAISE THE
STATEN ISLAND
BASKETBALL LEAGUE
By Craig Raucher

2. Introduction
 Over the course of its 35-year history, the Staten
Island Basketball League has thrived under the
leadership of Commissioner Craig Raucher.
Players in the pick-up style, fee-based league
range in age from 25 to 65 with an average age of
45. Many of them are experienced high school
and college players who never lost their love for
the game. Craig Raucher, an executive in the
transportation sector, has devoted countless
hours of his free time to developing what many
players have described as “basketball heaven” for
mature sportsmen craving both the excitement of
intense competition and the comfort of indoor
hardwood court.

3. Staten Island Basketball
League
 Player testimonials speak to the vitality and
continued popularity of the league. One player
emphasized the genuine spirit of friendship and
good sportsmanship on and off the court. Another
described the joy of being able to play longer,
challenging games against competitors of equal
skill, but without the aggressive on-court behavior
that has become part of the atmosphere of
schoolyard games played outdoors.
The Staten Island group enjoys a longstanding
relationship with Public School 8 in Great Kills,
whose hardwood court has been its home since
the beginning.