# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abe-saperstein
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:57:49.482Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abe-saperstein"
name: "Abe Saperstein"
slug: "abe-saperstein"
description: "Abraham Michael Saperstein was the founder, owner and earliest coach of the Harlem Globetrotters. Saperstein was a leading figure in black basketball and baseball from the 1920s through the 1950s, primarily before those sports were racially integrated."
tagline: "American sports executive and basketball coach"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Abe_Saperstein.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1902-07-04"
deathDate: "1966-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
  historical:           12.01301733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump