Mark Jacob, Matthew Jacob

Globetrotter

How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports

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Produktbeschreibung

The Harlem Globetrotters weren't from Harlem, and they didn't start out as globetrotters. Globetrotter is the fascinating biography of Abe Saperstein, a Jewish immigrant who took an obscure group of Black basketball players from Chicago's South Side, created the Harlem Globetrotters, and turned them into a worldwide sensation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 674g
• ISBN-13: 9781538181454
• ISBN-10: 1538181452
• Artikelnr.: 70064782

Autorenporträt

Mark Jacob is the co-author of the eight books about sports, history, and photography. He is former metro editor of the Chicago Tribune and created the newspaper's popular "10 Things You Might Not Know" history feature. Jacob's articles have been published in Library Quarterly, Chicago Reader, Chicago magazine and Chicago History magazine. He is a former adjunct professor at Northwestern University. Matthew Jacob is the co-author of What the Great Ate: A Curious History of Food and Fame. He started his career as a journalist, working as a sportswriter and city council reporter, receiving awards from the Arkansas Press Association. Jacob has written numerous guest/op-ed columns for elected officials, advocacy groups, and nonprofits that have been published by the Boston Globe, Detroit Free Press, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and many other newspapers.