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The Harlem Globetrotters are an American exhibition basketball team. They combine athleticism, theater, entertainment, and comedy in their style of play. Over the years, they have played more than 26,000 exhibition games in 124 countries and territories, mostly against deliberately ineffective opponents, such as the Washington Generals (1953–1995, since 2015) and the New York Nationals (1995 ...
Harlem Globetrotters. Johnson was discovered by Globetrotters' general manager, Joe Anzivino, and invited to training camp in Los Angeles in fall 1988. He became the marquee dribbler and held that position for 18 consecutive seasons, from 1988 to 2007, playing 4210 games. He toured 81 countries on all seven continents.
Abe Saperstein. Abraham Michael Saperstein ( Yiddish: אברהם מיכאל סאפערשטיין; July 4, 1902 – March 15, 1966) was the founder, owner and earliest coach of the Harlem Globetrotters. Saperstein was a leading figure in black basketball and baseball from the 1920s through the 1950s, primarily before those sports were racially ...
Pages in category "Harlem Globetrotters". The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Harlem Globetrotters.
As the Harlem Globetrotters nears its centennial anniversary, the trick-shot exhibition team is revving up for all-new bilingual TV programming. In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month ...
Harlem Globetrotters. (TV series) Harlem Globetrotters is a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera and CBS Productions, featuring animated versions of players from the basketball team of the same name. [1] Broadcast from September 12, 1970, to October 16, 1971, on CBS Saturday Morning, repeated from September 10, 1972, to May 20 ...
He played for Monroe College, a junior college in the Bronx, and played professionally with other touring exhibition teams. Born in the Bronx and raised in Harlem, he was a star player in the New York Towers Basketball team, who is one of the most successful teams in the Dwarf Athletic Association of America.
College. Anderson College. Career history. 1949–1954. Harlem Globetrotters. John E. Wilson (1927 – January 11, 2019), popularly known as Jumpin' Johnny Wilson, was an American basketball and baseball player. He gained his nickname for being the only player on his high school team able to dunk the basketball. [1]