BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0-313@fjmc.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241125T210000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241125T220000 DTSTAMP:20241109T231326Z URL:https://fjmc.org/events-2/globetrotters/ SUMMARY:Globetrotters - How Abe Saperstein Shook Up The World of Sports DESCRIPTION:Scroll Down to Register\n\n\nGlobetrotters - How Abe Saperstein Shook Up The World of Sports\nA Conversation with authors\, Mark Jacob an d Matthew Jacob\nMonday\, November 25\, 2024\n9PM EST | 8PM CST | 6PM PST\ nJoin Mark Jacob and Matthew Jacob\, authors of the captivating biography of Abe Saperstein\, originator of the Harlem Globetrotters\, which is call ed "meticulously researched and written in an easy and entertaining style" \; by Booklist in a starred review and a "deeply researched\, exquisitel y written new book” by The Chicago Tribune. The original Harlem Globetr otters weren’t from Harlem\, and they didn’t start out as globetrotter s. The talented all-Black team\, started by Jewish immigrant Abe Saperstei n\, was from Chicago’s South Side and toured the Midwest in Saperstein ’s model-T. But with Saperstein’s savvy and the players’ skills\, th e Globetrotters would become a worldwide sensation. Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports is the fascinating biography of Sa perstein\, a five-foot-three promoter who made an amazing impact in a spor t where height is at a premium: basketball. After Saperstein founded the t eam in the 1920s\, they battled everything from blizzards to bigotry\, ste adily building.\n\n\n\nRead this Chicago Magazine Feature Story\n\n\n  \;\n\n\n\n\nMark Jacob is a graduate of Hendrix College. He is the co-auth or of eight books about sports\, history and photography He is the former metro editor of the Chicago Tribune and created the newspaper's popular "T en Things You Might Not Know"\; history feature. Mark'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.\n\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\nMatthew Jacob is a graduate of University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He started his career a s a journalist. Matt is a member of the Society for American Baseball Rese arch and has written for the Boston Globe\, Detroit Free Press\, Los Angel es Times and USA Today.\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n\n\ n\n\n[ninja_form id=10]\n\n\n\n\n\n CATEGORIES:Sports Affinity Group END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR