Reece Tatum

(1921-1967) lived in Lincoln. Professional basketball player, while playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and Harlem Magicians from 1942 to 1962, he created several stunts and routines, became a top box office attraction known as the "Clown Prince" of basketball, and was credited with pioneering stylish maneuvers such as the overhead hook shot adopted by National Basketball Association players; played for the Lincoln Air Force Base team during World War II. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, March 19, 1944, p. C-5 and New York Times obituary, January 19, 1967, p. 31 and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Basketball and Other Sports (Greenwood Press, 1989) 293-294 and Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives: Sports Figures, Vol 2 (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002) 415-416.

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