Author: Jerry Gill

  • The Original Harlem Globetrotters

    Back in the 1940s the Trotters were the best basketball team in the world. Every year they played the NBA champs in Madison Square Garden two out of three and won. They were created by one Abe Saperstein back before World War and toured the country every year sometimes even playing in swimming pools and…

  • WHITEHEAD, HARTSHORNE, AND ME

    Many of those reading these blogs will have heard of Charles Hartshorne, Alfred North Whitehead’s most well-known student and chief propagator of Whitehead’s philosophy. Well, the confluence of the three of us came about on this wise. At a meeting of The Southern Society of Philosophy of Religion many years ago Professor Hartshorne and I…