Word: saperstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tatum never meant to be a professional basketball player. But Abe Saperstein, the sapient impresario of the Globe Trotters, happened to see him playing first base with Cincinnati's Negro American League Ethiopian Clowns last summer. Last week Tatum's extensible equipment was helping the Globe Trotters to be one of the most successful professional basketball teams...
...last week's world's championship final, the Chicago Bruins, owned by Pioneer Promoter George Halas (who also owns the professional football-playing Chicago Bears), and the Harlem Globetrotters, owned by Chicago's Abe Saperstein ("the Mike Jacobs of Negro sports"), put on the best show of the week. With only five minutes to play, the Bruins were leading 29-to-21. Then, with a blitzkrieg of crazy passing and shooting, the dipsy-doo Globetrotters bombarded the baskets, won the game (31-to-29), the title and $1,800 first-prize money...