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Reece "Goose" Tatum was an American Negro league baseball and basketball player. In 1942, he was signed to the Harlem Globetrotters and had an 11-year career with the team. He later formed his own team known as the Harlem Magicians with former Globetrotters player Marques Haynes. He is a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame. Tatum's number 50 is retired by the Globetrotters.
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Charles "Tex" Harrison was an American basketball player, born in Indiana and raised in Texas, who played and coached for the Harlem Globetrotters for six decades. Harrison was the first player from a historically African American college to receive All-American honors.
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- ↑ "The All-Time Roster of the World Famous Harlem Globetrotters". harlemglobetrotters.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
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- ↑ "Harlem Globetrotters/Legends/ "BIG" FRANK WASHINGTON" . Retrieved 2018-09-16.
- ↑ "Obituary:'Big Frank' Washington, Harlem Globetrotters star, dead at 91". The Philadelphia Sunday Sun. 2013-02-03. Retrieved 2018-09-16.
- ↑ "The memory of Norristown basketball standout Michele Washington remains vivid for all that knew her". timesherald.com. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
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