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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Wyatt "Sonny"
Boswell (died October 19, 1964) was an early African American
professional basketball player. He was born in Greenville, Mississippi
and grew up in Toledo, Ohio, where he attended Scott High School. He
played for the Harlem Globetrotters from 1939 to 1942. Boswell was known
for taking long distance trick shots to entertain the fans. Abe
Saperstein, the manager of the Globetrotters, described Boswell as "one
of the great long shot artists of his day". In 1940, Boswell was named
MVP of the World Professional Basketball Tournament after scoring eleven
points in the Globetrotters' 31-29 championship win over the Chicago
Bruins. During the 1942-43 season, Boswell played for the Chicago
Studebaker Flyers of the National Basketball League. He was one of a
group of former Harlem Globetrotters who joined the previously all-white
NBL to replace players who had recently been drafted for World War II.
Over the years, Boswell also appeared in games for the New York
Renaissance and the Chicago Monarchs.
