Meadowlark Lemon, the front man of the Globetrotters during my childhood run, has died<\/a>. One of those childhood memories I had, like so many my age, was of the Harlem Globetrotters. \u00a0The Clown Princes of Basketball. \u00a0Of course we knew it was staged, but it was a wonderful time. \u00a0The lineup of Meadowlark\u2019s era was the stuff of a Hollywood casting director. \u00a0And the leader of the troupe was the great and awesomely named Meadowlark Lemon. \u00a0They even had a cartoon series! \u00a0But then again, so did the Osmond brothers and the Jackson Five. \u00a0Anyway, another small piece of the puzzle that makes up the picture of our lives has passed, \u00a0Thanks for the memories, the magic, and the mysterious ability to do things with a basketball that no mortal should eve be able to do. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meadowlark Lemon, the front man of the Globetrotters during my childhood run, has died. One of those childhood memories I had, like so many my age, was of the Harlem Globetrotters. \u00a0The Clown Princes of Basketball. \u00a0Of course we knew it was staged, but it was a wonderful time. \u00a0The lineup of Meadowlark\u2019s era was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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