HR
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American baseball and basketball player
Gender:
Male
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Birth:
1910
Death:
1987
The details
Biography
Harry Alfonso Rusan (April 1, 1910 – November 9, 1987) was an American basketball player for the Harlem Globetrotters and a Negro league baseball shortstop in the 1930s.
A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Rusan attended Paul Quinn College. He played professional baseball for the Brooklyn Royal Giants in 1931, and his basketball career with the Harlem Globetrotters spanned from 1933 to 1942. Rusan died in Detroit, Michigan in 1987 at age 77.