FORREST SPROWL		Height:	6:00		Weight:		175		College:		Purdue’42
Forrest Henry Sprowl		Born:	Aug 23, 1919			Died:  Oct 19, 1988			Hometown:		Oblong, Il.
			POST SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
19139-40	Purdue	College
1940-41	Purdue	College
1941-42	Purdue	College
1941-42	Chicago Bruins	Indep
1942-45	U.S. Navy	Military Service
			POST SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1941-42	Chicago Bruins	WBT	2	18	0	1	.000		36	18.0
	Major League Totals		2	18	0	0	.000		36	18.0

 

 

MICKEY TIERNEY		Height:	5:11		Weight:	165			College:		Purdue’42
John Joseph Tierney Jr.		Born: Feb 22, 1920				Died:  Sep 5, 1965			Hometown:		Chicago, Il.
			REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1938-39	Purdue (Frosh)	College
1939-40	Purdue	College
1940-41	Purdue	College
1941-42	Purdue	College
1941-42	Chicago Bruins	Indep
1942-43	Wisconsin STC	College
			POST SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1941-42	Chicago Bruins	WBT	2	7	0	3	.000		14	7.0
	Major League Totals		2	7	0	3	.000		14	7.0

Reece “Goose” Tatum was born in El Dorado, Arkansas. He attended Booker T. Washington High School where he played basketball, football and  baseball. Tatum’s early success in professional sports was playing baseball. Tatum started with the Louisville Black Colonels and later played for the Birmingham Black Barons (1941 and 1942), and the Indianapolis Clowns (1945–1948).  Early in his career, he began enlivening the games with comic antics, including catching throws behind his back, kneeling in mock prayer before going to bat, and inviting fans (especially children) onto the field during a game. These performances caught the attention of Abe Saperstein, owner of the Harlem Globetrotters. His natural athletic ability and sense of comic timing made him a natural fit for the Globetrotters. He soon became the team’s clown, eventually earning  the nickname “Clown Prince” for his antics on the basketball court.  Tatum played with the Globetrotters in the early 1940’s  before he was drafted into the U.S. Army Air Corps for service during World War II. After the war, he returned to play with the Globetrotters for another ten years. Tatum choreographed several of the famous Globetrotter reams including hiding in the crowd and spying on the opposition’s huddle. In the 1940’s, the Globetrotters still played some of their games against top-notch professional teams. In these games, Tatum could exhibit his ample basketball skills. He was wily defender, an outstanding ball handler and and  deadly hook shooter. In February of 1948, Tatum and the Trotters beat the George  Mikan-led Minneapolis Lakers in back to back games. A few months, later,  the Lakers went on to win both the National Basketball League title and the World’s Professional Basketball Tournament. In 1955, after twelve season with the Trotters. Tatum, along with teammate  Marques Haynes,  formed a barnstorming basketball team of their own, the Harlem Magicians. Tatum continued to barnstorm until 1966, the year before his death at the age of 45. In 2011, he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

 

GOOSE TATUM		Height:	6:02		Weight:	190			College:		None
Reece Tatum		Born: May 3, 1918			Died: Jan 18, 1967				Hometown:		Eldorado, Ak.
					REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG	8
1040-41	Harlem Globetrotters	Indep
1941-42	Harlem Globetrotters	Indep
1942-43	Harlem Globetrotters	Indep
1943-45	Military Service
1945-46	Harlem Globetrotters	Indep
1946-47	Harlem Globetrotters	Indep
1947-48	Harlem Globetrotters	Indep
1948-49	Harlem Globetrotters	Indep
1949-50	Harlem Globetrotters	Indep
1950-51	Harlem Globetrotters	Indep
1951-52	Harlem Globetrotters	Indep
1952-53	Harlem Globetrotters	Indep
1953-54	Harlem Globetrotters	Indep
1954-55	Harlem Globetrotters	Indep
1955-56	Harlem Magicians	Indep
1956-57	Harlem Magicians	Indep
1957-58	Harlem Stars	Indep
1958-59	Harlem Trotters	Indep			LA Harlem Clowns
1959-60	Harlem Magicians	Indep
1959-60	Harlem Stars	Indep
1960-61	Harlem Stars	Indep
1961-62	Harlem Globetrotters	Indep
1961-62	Harlem Stars	Indep
1962-63	Harlem Roadkings	Indep			Harlem Stars			Harlem Sttalites
1963-64	Harlem Roadkings	Indep
1964-65	Harlem Roadkings	Indep
1965-66	Harlem Roadkings	Indep
			POST SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG	8
1942-43	Harlem Globetrotters	WBT	1	8	1	5	.000		17	17.0
	Major League Totals		1	8	1	5	.200		17	17.0

HENRY SINGLETON		Height:	6:04		Weight:				College:		None
		Born:							Hometown:
			REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1942-43	Harlem Globetrotters	Indep
1944-45	Chicago Collegians	Indep
			POST SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1942-43	Harlem Globetrotters	WBT	1	2	0	3	.000		4	4.0
	Major League Totals		1	2	0	3	.000		4	4.0

JOE FRIVALDSKY		Height:	6:04		Weight:		200		College:		Baylor’42
Joseph Frivaldsky Jr.		Born:	Nov 13, 1912		Died:  Sep 20, 1987				Hometown:		Chicago, Il.
			REGULAR SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1942-43	Chicago Ramblers	Indep
42-45	Military Service
			POST SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1942-43	Chicago Ramblers	WBT	1	4	1	2	.500		9	9.0
	Major League Totals		1	4	1	2	.500		9	9.0

 

BOB TIETZ		Height:		5:09	Weight:		160		College:		Loyola(Il)’43
Robert Eugene Tietz		Born:	Jan 8, 1915		Died:  Jan, 1979				Hometown:		Chicago, Il.
			POST SEASON RECORD
Year	Team	League	GA	FGM	FTM	FTA	PCT.	AST	PTS	AVG
1940-41	Loyola (Ill)	College
1941-42	Loyola (Ill)	College
1942-43	Loyola (Ill)	College
1942-43	Chicago Ramblers	Indep
1943-46	U.S. Army	Military Service
1947-48	Chicago DeSoto Dons	Indep
1948-49	Chicago Steers	Indep
			POST SEASON RECORD
1942-43	Chicago Ramblers	WBT	1	2	0	1	.000		4	4.0
	Major League Totals		1	2	0	1	.000		4	4.0