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"... Saperstein, who at 5-foot-3 is the shortest man in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, is credited with introducing the three-pointer to the game. But his imprint on basketball, and sports more broadly, extends far beyond Curry’s signature long-distance shot. ...
Saperstein played a crucial role in elevating basketball from a second-tier American sport to a professionalized global powerhouse. ...
“I think that he should be considered one of the great innovators in sports, and not just in sports and how it was played — although he was that — but also in how sports was marketed and how it was promoted.” ...
Saperstein fits into broader Jewish-Black relations in the period, when Jewish leaders played a key role in the fight for Black civil rights. ..."
Saperstein’s career in sports began as a booking agent, and in 1926 he became the coach of an all-Black team then called the Savoy Big Five, based on the South Side of Chicago. Saperstein renamed the team and began a barnstorming tour that, nearly a century and thousands of games later, the [Harlem] Globetrotters are still on. ...
Saperstein fits into broader Jewish-Black relations in the period, when Jewish leaders played a key role in the fight for Black civil rights. ..."
At left, the book cover of Mark and Matthew Jacob's Abe Saperstein biography. At right, Saperstein, far left, in the earliest known team photo of the Globetrotters, from the 1930–1931 season. Notice, they were wearing knee protectors.
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