Meadowlark Lemon African American Basketball Player And Minister Died 2015 - April 25 in History | This Day Story

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April 25, 1932

Meadowlark Lemon, African-American basketball player and minister (died 2015)

Meadowlark Lemon

Meadowlark Lemon was an American basketball player, actor, and Christian minister. For 22 years, he was known as the "Clown Prince" of the touring Harlem Globetrotters basketball team. He was a 2003 inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Ordained in 1986, in 1994 he started Meadowlark Lemon Ministries in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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