When the two friends met, Meadowlark Lemon was a 20 year-old from the segregated South, who used his considerable physical and social skills over 24 years with the Globetrotters to pave the way for many others. According to reports, Mr. Lemon played in more than 16,000 games with the Globetrotters.
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The Times’ obituary described him as a “gifted athlete with an entertainer’s hunger for the spotlight” and one of the most famous and beloved Globetrotters in the team’s storied history.
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When he was inducted into the basketball hall of fame in 2003 he said his destiny had been “to make people happy”.
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“For a generation of fans, the name Meadowlark Lemon was synonymous with the Harlem Globetrotters”, said Globetrotters CEO Kurt Schneider (via a press release).
“We played serious games too, against the Olympic teams and the College All-Stars”, Mr. Lemon said.
Lemon and his Globetrotters became world-famous, even playing in Moscow during the Cold War, and featuring in a Hanna-Barbara cartoon series in the 1970’s.
Meadowlark was the most sensational, awesome, incredible basketball player Ive ever seen, Chamberlain said in a television interview not long before he died in 1999.
When Lemon joined the team, the Globetrotters were still better known then the New Knicks and the Boston Celtics and played in front of bigger crowds.
The team initially played their opponents to win straight up, leaving the tricks out of the game only until the score was beyond reach.
Lemon left the Globetrotters in 1978 over a contract dispute and subsequently formed his own traveling teams, including Meadowlark Lemon’s Bucketeers and Meadowlark Lemon’s Harlem All-Stars.
Basketball superstar, Meadowlark Lemon, of Harlem Globetrotters fame, is dead at age 83.
Nicknamed the “clown prince of basketball”, Lemon was renowned for his comedy routines, including showering referees and fans with water buckets full of confetti.
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Meadowlark Lemon helped change the face of American history, Black history, and Sports history! He never lost that connection to the fans.
