An interview with the authors of a new biography on Harlem Globetrotters founder Abe Saperstein sheds light on his major ...

The original Harlem Globetrotters came not from Harlem but from the South Side, led by Abe Saperstein, a 5' 3" Chicago promoter with big ideas that would shape American sports for decades.

Abe Saperstein, a North Side Chicago businessman whose sports career started with a job as a booking agent, later made a crucial pivot. He took over the team and renamed it the New York Harlem ...

Klotz, who with his Globetrotters counterpart, Abe Saperstein, formed a Jewish-run traveling basketball show that has traveled around the world for more than six decades, died Saturday at his home ...

Abe Saperstein became involved with the team as its manager and promoter. By 1929, Saperstein was touring Illinois and Iowa with his basketball team called the New York Harlem Globe Trotters.