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Meadowlark Lemon. Meadow Lemon III [1] (April 25, 1932 – December 27, 2015), [2] known professionally as Meadowlark Lemon, was an American basketball player, actor, and Christian minister. For 22 years, he was known as the "Clown Prince" of the touring Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. [3] He was a 2003 inductee into the Naismith Memorial ...
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 ...
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 ...
Point guard. Number. 22. Career history. 1963–1985. Harlem Globetrotters. Frederick "Curly" Neal (May 19, 1942 – March 26, 2020) was an American basketball player who played with the Harlem Globetrotters, instantly recognizable with his shaved bald head. Following in the footsteps of Marques Haynes, Neal became the Trotters' featured ...
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 ...
Ausbie was born in Crescent, Oklahoma. [1] [2] He attended Douglas High School where he played on the basketball and baseball teams. [3] He was such an exceptional basketball star; during a tournament his senior season, he averaged 40 points per game [3] and scored 70, 54 and 62 points in three consecutive games. [4]
The New York Renaissance, also known as the Renaissance Big R Five and as the Rens, were the first black-owned, all- black, fully-professional basketball team in history, established in October 1923, by Robert "Bob" Douglas. They were named after the Renaissance Casino and Ballroom through an agreement with its owner, in return for the use of ...
1949–1952. Harlem Globetrotters. Roscoe Franklin "Duke" Cumberland (1913 – October 23, 1966) [1] was a member of the Harlem Globetrotters. [2] He averaged 6.9 points per game in the National Basketball League for the Chicago Studebaker Flyers. [3]