Baseball, Football, Basketball, Hockey, Soccer, Tennis, Pickleball, Quidditch, NFL, NBA, NCAA, Major League, Minor League, Fantasy, League, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: SPORTS, SPORTS, SPORTS!!!!! Now that I have your attention, mark your calendar for the next installment of the FJMC Sports Affinity Group.
The original Harlem Globetrotters weren’t from Harlem, and they didn’t start out as globetrotters. The talented all-Black team, started by Jewish immigrant Abe Saperstein, was from Chicago’s South Side and toured the Midwest in Saperstein’s model-T. But with Saperstein’s savvy and the players’ skills, the Globetrotters would become a worldwide sensation. Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports is the fascinating biography of Saperstein, a five-foot-three promoter who made an amazing impact in a sport where height is at a premium: basketball. After Saperstein founded the team in the 1920s, they battled everything from blizzards to bigotry, steadily building.
Please tune in on Monday, November 25, 2024 at 9pm when the FJMC Sports Affinity Group will host a special webinar featuring Mark Jacob and Matthew Jacob, authors of the captivating biography of Abe Saperstein, originator of the Harlem Globetrotters, which is called “meticulously researched and written in an easy and entertaining style“; by Booklist in a starred review and a “deeply researched, exquisitely written new book” by The Chicago Tribune. To register for this free Webinar, please visit: https://fjmc.org/events-2/globetrotters/.
FJMC Sports Affinity webinars are a positive diversion in these very tough times; please join us.
FJMC’s Sports Affinity Group is a timely, interactive, Zoom based discussion about Sports; the people, the stats, the legends and the scandals. Get ready to enjoy some great stories and learn a little bit about the people and events that made them possible as we gather in the spirit of Brotherhood in FJMC’s virtual VIP hospitality suite. The FJMC Sports Affinity Group hosted by Co-Chairs David Kravitz & Danny Mandeau and is part of a growing list of FJMC Affinity Groups and is offered at no charge to all Jewish Men’s Clubs and Brotherhoods across the United States and around the world. For more information visit: https://fjmc.org/events-2/globetrotters/ or email sports@fjmc.org.
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