Abe Saperstein HarlemGlobetrotters Papers, 1928-1991

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Abe Saperstein HarlemGlobetrotters Papers, 1928-1991

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Collection documents AbeSaperstein's career as owner and coach of the Harlem Globetrotters.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Saperstein, Abe

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Abe Saperstein (1902-1966) founded, promoted, and coached the Harlem Globetrotters Basketball Team, previously named the Savoy Big Five, for 39 years. He was born in London in 1902, moved to Chicago at the age of six, and began coaching basketball in 1925. In 1926, he started Saperstein's Harlem, New York, Globetrotters, who later became known as simply the Harlem Globetrotters. Having difficulty finding opponents, Saperstein created an entertaining comic basketball show in 1929. In 1940 the tea...

Harlem Globetrotters

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