This book chronicles the rise to success of the Harlem Globetrotters. It gives a brief istory of the basketball team, and mini biographies for the teams manager, Abraham "Abe" Saperstein, Reece "Googe" Tatum, and Marques Haynes. It details their rise to cecoming "World Champions", their world tours, and appearances on television and in the movies. It also describes Louis Klotz's role as the opposing team's coach. There is a look at the teams various players and how they add to the success of the team such as telling jokes while playing, being the dribbling star, and what the players do when they aren't playing. The last section of the book describes the teams 10,000 game played on March 6, 1970. The first edition of the book came with a white cover, while the covers were changed for the 7th and 9th printings of the book. These features a blue background with star shaped photographs of the players. &th printing cover has photos with all the same orange background. The 9th printing's cover featured; With picture stars having yellow, grey, black, and blue stars. The book has several black and white photographs. It's Scholastic Book No. is TK 1651.