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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 Curly Neal has some fun with a fan during game against the Washington Generals at the Westchester County Center in White Plains Dec. 16, 1979. The Globetrotters won the game ...
Many of the towns where the Globetrotters played in their first few years were all white, and Saperstein did not want other teams or spectators to be surprised that his team was black. [1] The Globetrotters played their first game in Hinckley, Illinois. The team netted a grand total of $8, which was split evenly among the six members of the ...
The Globetrotters and Crescents combined operations and were charter members of the West Coast Negro Baseball League, changing their name to the Seattle Steelheads. [ 1 ] The Steelheads played in the West Coast Negro Baseball League and played their first game on June 1, 1946, against the San Diego Tigers , in front of 2,500 fans at Sick's Stadium.
Harlem's captain, Curly Neal, did not play in this game. [20] While the Globetrotters were entertaining the crowd that day, they lost track of the game and the score. They found themselves down 12 points with two minutes left to go. Forced to play normal basketball, the Globetrotters rallied but could not recover. [21]
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UTEP broke the Globetrotters 288 game winning streak. They garnered an at-large bid to the 2004 NCAA Tournament, where they lost in the first round. UTEP 2003 victory: Miners end Harlem ...
Thomas Robert Brookins (September 2, 1906 – June 1988) was an American sportsman and entertainer. He founded the basketball team that became the Harlem Globetrotters, and toured the world as one half of the vaudeville singing and comedy duo Brookins and Van.