Before college basketball gained national popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, and prior to the professional game developing a stable organization in the 1940s and 1950s, barnstormers such as (pictured from top to bottom) the Original Celtics, the New York Rens (or Renaissance Five), and the Harlem Globetrotters (originally the Savoy Five) were the most recognizable basketball players in the U.S.
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