Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports

The original Harlem Globetrotters weren’t from Harlem, and they didn’t start out as globetrotters. The talented all-Black basketball team, started by Jewish immigrant Abe Saperstein, was from Chicago’s South Side and toured the Midwest in Saperstein’s model-T. Join brothers Mark and Matthew Jacob, the authors of Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports, to learn more about Saperstein’s savvy and the players’ skills that would transform the Globetrotters into a worldwide sensation. Free. The authors will be available afterward to sign books. presidentlincoln.illinois.gov.