When I lived in the Twin Cities, I was fortunate to see the
Harlem Globetrotters play a game at one of the arenas in Minneapolis. The best
player on the team was a guy named Meadowlark Lemon, In fact, according to
basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain, Meadowlark was the best player of all time.
During his 22 years with the Globetrotters, he played in more than 16,000
games, and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003.
A born-again
Christian, Lemon became an ordained minister in 1986 and received a Doctor of Divinity degree from Vision
International University in Ramona, California, in 1988. He was
also featured as a gospel singer within several Gaither Homecoming videos. In his
last years, he took up residence in Scottsdale, Arizona, where his
Meadowlark Lemon Ministries, Inc. is located.
The Harlem Globetrotters are still active today. Originally founded
on the South Side of Chicago in 1926 (remember Leroy Brown?), they moved to
Harlem the following year, and have been there ever since.
Early on, they adopted a little tune called “Sweet Georgia
Brown”, which you can listed to at the link below:
Incredibly, both the Stanley Cup playoffs and the NBA playoffs
just ended. The Stanley Cup concluded on June 11, and the Pittsburg Penguins
were victorious again. The NBA playoffs ended a day later, and the Golden State
Warriors got the trophy. Unfortunately, our society has become too wrapped up
in politics, and the Warriors unanimously decided to not travel to the White
House to meet with Donald Trump.
The Harlem Globetrotters, and Meadlowlark Lemon, made us all
laugh, and we need a lot more fun in our lives today. As Billy Joel sang a lot
of years ago, it’s time to forget about life for a while, and to sing that tune
one more time.
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