Harlem Globetrotters #1289

Caption from poster__     THE TEAM THAT CHANGED   THE WORLD     “At first we like to show our dominance    and then we entertain you from there.    We say we're basketball players first   and entertainers second.”      The Harlem Globetrotters are a basketball team that combines athleticism and comedy to create one of the best-known sports entertainment franchises in the world. Created by Abe Saperstein in 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, the team adopted the name Harlem because of its connotations as a leading African-American community. Over the years it has toured over 118 countries, playing more than 20,000 exhibition games, mostly against deliberately ineffective opposition like the Washington Generals (1953–1995) and the New York Nationals (1995–present). The Globetrotters are well-known throughout the basketball world. The organization started in the Negro American Legion League as the "Giles Post", and around 1926 turned professional. Shortly after, Saperstein became the manager