AP Photo/Frank Franklin II-In this Feb. 19, 2014 photo, a Rosenblum tournament scorecard showing information for games between the Philladelphia Sphas vs. the Harlem Rens, and the Original Celtics vs. […]
AP Photo/Frank Franklin II-In this Feb. 19, 2014 photo, a Rosenblum tournament scorecard showing information for games between the Philladelphia Sphas vs. the Harlem Rens, and the Original Celtics vs. the Detroit Eagles is show as part of an exhibit entitled “The Black Fives,” at the New-York Historical Society in New York. Dozens of teams flourished between 1904 and 1950 in what became known as the Black Fives Era, an often-overlooked piece of black history that is the subject of an exhibition opening at the New-York Historical Society on March 14.