Download or read book Here Come the Harlem Globetrotters written by Larry Dobrow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 90 years, the Harlem Globetrotters have dazzled and entertained fans around the world with their incredible basketball skills. Kids can learn all about these wizards of the court and what it means to be a Globetrotter in this incredible leveled reader. Full color.
Download or read book Swish written by Suzanne Slade and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the high-flying Harlem Globetrotters -- the team that changed basketball forever. In this book you will find one-finger ball-spinning, rapid-fire mini-dribbling, and a ricochet head shot! You will find skilled athletes, expert players, and electrifying performers -- all rolled into one! You will find nonstop, give-it-all-you've-got, out-to-win-it, sky's-the-limit BASKETBALL! You will find THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS, who played the most groundbreaking, breathtaking ball the world had ever seen. With rhythmic writing and dynamic illustrations, Swish! is a celebration of the greatness, goodness, and grit of this remarkable team.
Download or read book The Harlem Globetrotters written by Josh Wilker and published by Facts On File. This book was released on 1997 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic look at the world-famous basketball wizards who have been mesmerizing fans since the 1920s. Includes 50 photos from every era of the team's fascinating history.
Download or read book Trust Your Next Shot written by Meadowlark Lemon and published by Ascend Books. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meadowlark Lemon illustrates the determination it took to overcome poverty, racial prejudice, and many other roadblocks that would have sidelined most any other person. Meadowlark, who was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003, delivers loving reminiscences of his youth, hilarious stories about his days with the Globetrotters, and wise instructions for living a JOY-filled life. Beginning with his upbringing in Wilmington, North Carolina to his vibrant message of JOY today, Meadowlark tells us to "trust our next shot. He uses the word "SHOT" to give us a guide for life. Spirit, Health, Opportunity, and Teamwork combine to fuel our passions, satisfy our heart's desires, create opportunities for doing good, and help others realize their dreams.
Download or read book Basketball Slave written by Mark Johnson and published by Junior CAM Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basketball Slave is filled to the brim with extraordinary tales from behind the scenes of the early, original Harlem Globetrotters, and loaded with a wealth of historical information never disclosed about the slow, quota-based inception of African American athletes in the NBA. This book clarifies the role of the original Harlem Globetrotters in making the NBA the multi-billion-dollar organization it is today. Johnson grew up watching his family working in the cotton fields of Louisiana, and played basketball barefoot in the streets of Hollywood, California. Johnson's education was undervalued as a high school basketball star, and he was sent to college without any hope of receiving a degree. He was finally sold on the professional basketball auction block three times without any ability to negotiate his pay or where he could play. Johnson turned every devastating event into another opportunity by staying positive in the game of life.
Download or read book Spinning the Globe written by Ben Green and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-08-19 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Julius Erving, or Michael Jordan––before Magic Johnson and Showtime––the Harlem Globetrotters revolutionized basketball and spread the game around the world. In Spinning the Globe, author Ben Green tells the story of this extraordinary franchise and iconic American institution. We follow the Globetrotters' rise from backwoods obscurity during the harsh years of the Great Depression to become the best basketball team in the country and, by the early 1950s, the most popular sports franchise in the world. Green brings to life their struggles with racism and segregation, and their influence upon a nation's views about race and sport. We witness the Globetrotters' fall from grace to the brink of bankruptcy in the early 1990s, and their ultimate rebirth under Mannie Jackson today, as they once again amaze kids and families around the world. Now in paperback, this is the true and complete story of their amazing eighty years as a team, told with lyrical prose and masterful storytelling by Ben Green.
Download or read book Around the World with the Harlem Globetrotters written by Dave Zinkoff and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lynette Woodard written by Bert Rosenthal and published by Children's Press(CT). This book was released on 1986 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the life and career of the individual who made sports history by becoming the first woman to play basketball for the Harlem Globetrotters.
Download or read book Guinness World Records 2020 written by Guinness World Records and published by Guinness World Records. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ted Strong Jr written by Sherman L. Jenkins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted Strong Jr. (1917-1978) was a two-sport athlete, a major star of the Negro Leagues and one of the original Harlem Globetrotters. His prominence in the Negro Leagues led Branch Rickey and other white baseball league owners to consider Strong as one of several possible players to integrate major league baseball, and he was a key force on the basketball court when the Globetrotters defeated the then-invincible Minneapolis Lakers in 1948. Despite his athletic dominance in the 1930s and 40s, Strong Jr. has largely been forgotten in American sports history. In Ted Strong Jr.: The Untold Story of an Original Harlem Globetrotter and Negro Leagues All-Star, Sherman L. Jenkins finally shares the fascinating story of this star athlete. Born Theodore Relighn Strong Jr. in South Bend, Indiana, Strong Jr., the eldest of fourteen children, was fortunate to have a positive influence in his father—a baseball player himself. Strong Jr. went on to play in seven Negro League Baseball East-West All-Star games, receiving the most votes in all of Black baseball history in 1939, and was a key member of the 1940 Harlem Globetrotter basketball team that won the World Professional Basketball Championship. Jenkins details all of this and more, including Strong Jr.’s frustrations with integration efforts promised by white baseball team owners and the eventual decline of the Negro Leagues after the entrance of Jackie Robinson into Major League Baseball. Through hours of interviews with Strong Jr.’s father and with friends and teammates of his brother Othello, along with extensive research of newspaper archives, this book provides rich insights into an unsung hero in the American sports landscape. For baseball and basketball fans of all ages, Ted Strong Jr.’s biography displays for the first time the determination and guts of a man who was idealized by many African Americans in the early twentieth century.
Download or read book Globetrotting written by Damion L. Thomas and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Cold War, the Soviet Union deplored the treatment of African Americans by the U.S. government as proof of hypocrisy in the American promises of freedom and equality. This probing history examines government attempts to manipulate international perceptions of U.S. race relations during the Cold War by sending African American athletes abroad on goodwill tours and in international competitions as cultural ambassadors and visible symbols of American values. Damion L. Thomas follows the State Department's efforts from 1945 to 1968 to showcase prosperous African American athletes including Jackie Robinson, Jesse Owens, and the Harlem Globetrotters as the preeminent citizens of the African Diaspora, rather than as victims of racial oppression. With athletes in baseball, track and field, and basketball, the government relied on figures whose fame carried the desired message to countries where English was little understood. However, eventually African American athletes began to provide counter-narratives to State Department claims of American exceptionalism, most notably with Tommie Smith and John Carlos's famous black power salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Exploring the geopolitical significance of racial integration in sports during the early days of the Cold War, this book looks at the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations' attempts to utilize sport to overcome hostile international responses to the violent repression of the civil rights movement in the United States. Highlighting how African American athletes responded to significant milestones in American racial justice such as the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision and the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Thomas surveys the shifting political landscape during this period as African American athletes increasingly resisted being used in State Department propaganda and began to use sports to challenge continued oppression.
Download or read book The Harlem Globetrotters written by Alice Cary and published by Scott Foresman. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the story of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, from their founding to the present, highlighting notable players as well as the humanitarian efforts of the Globetrotter organization.
Download or read book Boxcar to Boardrooms written by Mannie L. Jackson and published by Boxcar Holdings, LLC a Mannie Jackson Company. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After a pioneering basketball and corporate career: read my formula for 14 years of average annual double digit growth, and resurrecting the Globetrotter brand"--Cover.
Download or read book The Superstar Story of the Harlem Globetrotters written by Larry Dobrow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning readers can learn about the history of the Harlem Globetrotters in this slam-dunk Level 3 Ready-to-Read that will have everyone cheering! Did you know that the Harlem Globetrotters were originally from Chicago? Or that this incredible team paved the way for many innovations in basketball and the world of professional sports? Now you can get courtside seats to the best game in town and become a History of Fun Stuff Expert on the Harlem Globetrotters! A special section at the back of the book includes Common Core–vetted extras on subjects like the history of basketball and facts about Antarctica. Readers will also learn how to make a timeline and there’s even a fun quiz so readers can test themselves to see what they’ve learned! Learning about history has never been so much fun! © 2017 Copyright Harlem Globetrotters International, Inc.
Download or read book Here Come the Harlem Globetrotters written by Larry Dobrow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get to know the legendary Harlem Globetrotters in this slam-dunk Level 3 Ready-to-Read that will have everyone cheering! Did you know that the Harlem Globetrotters have played on every continent in the world (except Antarctica)? Or that they hold more than a dozen basketball world records? For more than ninety years, the Harlem Globetrotters have dazzled and entertained fans around the world with their incredible basketball skills. Learn all about these wizards of the court and what it means to be a Globetrotter in this incredible leveled reader! © 2017 Copyright Harlem Globetrotters International, Inc.
Download or read book Goodnight Basketball written by Michael Dahl and published by Capstone Editions. This book was released on 2020 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young fan cheers on his hometown basketball team, and then returns home to snuggle into bed.
Download or read book The Hoopstar written by Chavon D. White and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hoopstar was inspired by the true story of a twelve-year-old girl who’s always had a love for basketball. It was where she shined the most. Brylane knew how to master plays and how to outthink her opponent on the court, but she struggled with another opponent off the court . . . Dyslexia. This entertaining story gives readers an enjoyable reading experience while also teaching them the importance of overcoming obstacles, building confidence, self-love, courage, and the value of hard work.
