Stanley "Whitey" Von Nieda, Jr. is a retired American basketball player. He was born in Ephrata, Pennsylvania. He played basketball at Ephrata High School and Penn State University. Enlisting in the army during World War II, he played with the Fort Benning, Georgia paratroopers. There he led the country, both college and service teams, in scoring with 1062 points in 44 games. After being discharged he played for the Lancaster Red Roses in the Eastern Basketball League where he led that league in scoring, averaging better than 24 points per game. In 1947 he began playing for the Tri-City Blackhawks in the National Basketball League. While with the Blackhawks he made the All-Rookie team averaging 12 points a game. The team made it to the final round of the playoffs in both of the years he played there. In 1949, the founding year of the National Basketball Association, he was traded to the Baltimore Bullets where he completed the 1949 and 1950 NBA seasons. In Baltimore he started every game playing both point guard and shooting guard. Whitey was known for his quickness on the court. After leaving the NBA he coached at Elizabethtown College for two years. 

June 19th, 1922 in Pennsylvania  /  Died:   Sep 6th, 2023 - aged 101