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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 ...
Lynette Woodard (born August 12, 1959) is an American basketball player and former head women's basketball coach at Winthrop University. Woodward played college basketball for the Kansas Jayhawks . She became the first female member of the Harlem Globetrotters and, at age 38, began playing as one of the oldest members in the newly formed ...
Our weekly spin through The Journal News archives revisits the Harlem Globetrotters' annual visit to the Westchester County Center in 1979.
Pages in category "Harlem Globetrotters players" The following 172 pages are in this category, out of 172 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Lemon first applied to the Globetrotters in 1954 at age 22, finally being chosen to play in 1955. In 1980, he left to form one of his Globetrotters imitators, the Bucketeers. [11] He played with that team until 1983, then moved on to play with the Shooting Stars from 1984 to 1987. In 1988, he moved on to "Meadowlark Lemon's Harlem All Stars" team.
Some of Harlem's greatest basketball players returned to the school for a special 100-year celebration. Father-son duo one of top storylines of Harlem 100 years of basketball celebration Skip to ...
The Generals played their last game against the Globetrotters on August 1, 2015, in Wildwood, New Jersey. [11] [9] Overall, the Generals had lost to the Globetrotters more than 16,000 times in their combined history [2] while winning a mere 3–6 games. [12] [13] From 2015 the Globetrotters' opposition was organised by their own management.
Samuel Wallace Wheeler, Jr. (November 15, 1923 – April 16, 1989), nicknamed "Boom Boom", was an American professional basketball player with the Harlem Globetrotters and Harlem Magicians, and was an outfielder in Negro league baseball for the New York Cubans.