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n January 1952, the Harlem Globetrotters lost to the Seattle University. After losing to the Washington Generals in 1962, the Harlem Globetrotters lost only two more games in the next 38 years. On January 5, 1971 they lost in Martin, Tennessee to the New Jersey Reds, 100–99 in overtime; that ended an alleged 2,495-game winning streak. The 8,829 games in twenty-four years would mean the Globetrotters were playing nearly 368 games per year, or more than one game a day some days, for twenty-four years. This is due to the fact that multiple team line-ups tour as The Harlem Globetrotters to allow for a greater number of exhibitions. The Globetrotters won the other 10 games during that European tour.On November 10 and 11 at Vanderbilt University and the University of Maryland, another defending champion, they lost close games to both teams, their first consecutive defeats since 1961. Yet the tour probably marked a decade of improvement as a competitive team. On February 27, 2006, the Globetrotters extended their overall record to exactly 22,000 wins.Harlem Globetrotters Tickets are available at Sold Out Ticket Market on nominal rates.
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rlem Globetrotters gradually worked comic routines into their act until they became known more for entertainment than sports. The Globetrotters' acts often feature incredible coordination and skillful handling of one or more basketballs, such as passing or juggling balls between players, balancing or spinning balls on their fingertips, and making unusual, difficult shots. Members:
Among the Harlem Globetrotters are NBA greats Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain, Connie "The Hawk" Hawkins, Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, as well as Marques Haynes, George "Meadowlark" Lemon, Jerome James, Reece "Goose" Tatum and Hubert "Geese" Ausbie. In 1985, the Globetrotters signed their first female player, Olympic gold medalist Lynette Woodard, and their second, Joyce Walker, just three weeks later.Harlem Globetrotters Tickets are available at Sold Out Ticket Market on nominal rates.
Harlem Globetrotters were initially a serious competitive team, and despite a flair for entertainment, they would only clown for the audience after establishing a safe lead in the game. In 1939, they accepted an invitation to participate in the World Professional Basketball Tournament. The Rens defeated the Globetrotters and went on to win the Tournament, but in 1940 the Globetrotters avenged their loss by defeating the Rens in the quarterfinals and advancing to the championship game, where they beat the Chicago Bruins in overtime by a score of 37–36.Harlem Globetrotters beat the premier professional team, the Minneapolis Lakers, for two years in a row in 1948 and 1949, with the Lakers winning later contests. The February 1948 win was a hallmark in professional basketball history, as the all-black Globetrotters proved they were on an equal footing with the all-white Lakers. John Christgau has reported the 1948 game in his book Tricksters in the Madhouse, published in 2004 by the University of Nebraska Press; he notes that the 1949 game was filmed by Fox Movietone. Momentum for ending the National Basketball Association's color line grew, and in 1950, Chuck Cooper became the first black player drafted by an NBA team, the Boston Celtics. From that time on the Harlem Globetrotters had increasing difficulty attracting and retaining top talent.Harlem Globetrotters Tickets are available at Sold Out Ticket Market on nominal rates.
The genesis of the Globetrotters takes place in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois in the 1920s, where all the original players grew up. Hinckley, Illinois was home to the first Harlem Globetrotters game on January 7, 1927. In 1928, several players left the team in a dispute over bringing back other players who had left the team. That fall, several players led by Tommy Brookins formed a team called the "Globe Trotters" which would tour Southern Illinois that spring. After four decades of existence, the Globetrotters played their first "home" game in Harlem in 1968.Harlem Globetrotters Tickets are available at Sold Out Ticket Market on nominal rates.
The Harlem Globetrotters are an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism, theater and comedy. Created by Abe Saperstein in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, the team adopted the name Harlem because of its connotations as a major black community. Over the years they have played more than 20,000 exhibition games in 118 countries. Brother Bones's whistled version of "Sweet Georgia Brown" is the team's signature song. Globie has been their mascot since 1993.Harlem Globetrotters Tickets are available at Sold Out Ticket Market on nominal rates.
