When the Harlem Globetrotters were founded in 1950, Ray Meyerwas asked to find some college players to compete against them. Eventhen, the Globetrotters were amazing players, but because they wereblack they found the doors to college teams closed to them. Theplight of black players is explored in Part III of this five-partseries excerpted from his autobiography, "COACH."
There was no better time for a pleasant diversion than the endof my first losing season (1949-50). Good fortune came my way in theperson of the little round man who had made a circus of basketball,Abe Saperstein, founder of the Harlem Globetrotters.
The previous spring, Saperstein had brought …
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