The Harlem Globetrotters are born – This Dish for Jan. 7 | This Day in Sports History

hey I'm golf broadcaster Matt Adams the updated and expanded second edition of my book the golf round I'll never forget golf's biggest stars recall their finest moments is now available readers can expect to march with arie's army at the 1960 US Open relive Jack Nicholas's remarkable 1986 Masters win and be amazed by the tiger slam the golf round I'll never forget golf's biggest stars we call their finest moments pick it up we find books sold including Barnes & noble.com and amazon.com [Music] Thrive site Productions and welcome to another edition of this day in sports history have you ever been to a Harlem Globe Trotters game well even if you haven't you surely know about them and the fun shows they've been putting on for kids of all ages for many generations well the Harlem Globe Trotters played their first ever basketball game on this day in 1927 first thing to know though is that they are not a team from New York Chicago's Abe sapperstein took over as coach of a group of black Chicago players who had previously played for a team known as the Savoy big five black players were not allowed to play in a professional basketball league at the time and wouldn't for another 23 years to better Market the team sapperstein made the decision to name them after the famous black neighborhood in New York and even soed New York on the team's red white and blue jerseys and the group became a barnstorming team that would travel around in the midwest playing games on this night they traveled the 50 miles from Chicago to Hinkley Illinois they lost on this night but over a 117 game schedule that year they won 101 of them against a variety of competition now this was not the entertaining group that you see now they weren't doing the crazy dribbling and doing the bucket of confetti or clowning around with a ra this was a team that got paid to play basketball and to play to win the reported pay for this night was $75 and that's not per player that's $75 total for the five players one of the guys on the team was Al runt Pullins who was by all accounts a star player who also owned a car so the guys could get from town to town to play the games sapin said many years later that pins was the best player he ever coached by 1936 they were playing upwards of a thousand games a year and it wasn't until 1939 that the Harlem Globe Trotters that you know today started to take shape once the team had a large enough lead the players were allowed to show off some of their skills to the crowd and they started performing a few onc Court comedic pieces the crowds overwhelmingly loved the performance and Satine encouraged more of it but again only when they had a substantial lead they've played all around the world now and delighted fans for nearly 100 years and they got their start on this day in 1927 also on this day in 1991 baseball's Pete Rose was released from federal prison after spending 5 months in jail for income tax evasion and in 1980 the Philadelphia Flyers lost for the first time in 86 days they put together a 35g game unbeaten streak consisting of 25 wins and 10 ties they came to an end after losing 7 to1 to the Minnesota northstars that's all for today I'll have more tomorrow on this day in sports history hey there sports history fan this is Arie Chapman aka the football history dude and I hope that you enjoyed this recent episode presented by the sports history Network and we're able to learn some good oldfashioned sports history knowledge nuggets I started the sports history Network back in 2020 with the mission to help podcasters find a community of like-minded sports history nerds as well as helping aspiring podcast Cas to start their own shows we have a little bit over 30 shows on the network right now covering all sorts of sports history but as far as I'm concerned we're just at the toothpick in the ocean moment you know that can't even figure it out cuz there's so much more coming we wanted to create the ultimate headquarters for sports yester year starting with podcast Network and our website but we're going to continue to move into other mediums as well and here's the cool part because we want you to be part of our team so if you're interested in starting your own podcast or maybe being a guest on one of our shows or who knows maybe even write an article for us over on the website seriously all you got to do is reach out to us on the contact page over at sports history network.com you can be as technologically savvy as a neanderthal tapping on a stone trying to figure out this whole hieroglyphics thing back in the day again it doesn't matter because even if you don't understand the whole podcast base we have a production team that can pretty much help you out with doing everything all you got to do head over to sports his network.com head to the Conta page fill it out that message goes right to me and I'll reach out to you as soon as I can but for now dude I'm through if you're through