BOOK REPORT :
"Spinning The Globe - The Rise, Fall and Return to Greatness of the Harlem Globetrotters."
By Ben Green
With a Foreword by Bill Cosby Amistad/HarperCollins, May 2005
As an intern at The Source. I always come across cool shit. For instance this book I found, coming unbound, on the floor near the copy machine. Spinning The Globe is about something great in basketball and something lost in entertainment. The Harlem Globetrotters brought basketball around the country and were a part of spreading a sport that any would agree has done a lot of good for a lot of folks, except for possibly Kobe Bryant. It's interesting to follow the Globetrotters, who you'll find out did not originate in Harlem, across the around the world and even in their early years into the mining towns of the untamed western United States.
The Harlem Globetrotters certainly preceed the NBA, as far as an entity, in beging a greater national foundation for professional/competitive basketball. Of coarse, the league sets the standard for how the game is played, well, unless you took the World Championships to heart, but the 'Trotters were America's original introduction to the game. The only single thing being more valuable to the sport might be Michael Jordan.
Read this book. Get put on to some hoops knowledge.
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