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parents blazed a trail to
Midwestern America. Despite
the fact that he was only 5 feet 4
inches and weighed 130 pounds,
Grund was a star athlete at Des
Moines' East High School. He
lettered in football, basketball,
track, wrestling and swimming.
"He was mainly the quarter-
back in football, but he was so
obscure on the field that when
the teams lined up, he also
could play the end position
and hide near the sideline. He
caught two touchdown passes
from a halfback to help his
team win the city champi-
onship in 1922," said Ceresnie,
looking at a pile of clippings
and photographs.
A Des Moines sports writer
Bobby Grund: Sports and civil rights.
said Grund did it by "hiding
under some headgear left lying
years, and sort of sapped my father's
on the field. It may have been foot-
strength. It really cut short his sports-
ball's first 'trick' play."
promoting career.
His daughter said Grund "had a
"But he made a great living," added
great shot on the basketball court —
Ceresnie. "I remember he bought our
he had to, being so short. Amazingly,
first house with cash in the 1950s."
he went on to play football and com-
Eventually settling in Michigan and
pete in track at Iowa State Teachers
a home in Livonia, Grund also pro-
College (now Northern Iowa) and
moted boxing, tennis and roller derby,
Drake University."
and was ahead of his time with rau-
His love for sports led Grund to
cous wrestling matches in the '40s and
pursue his promoting career, starting
'50s, including many in local arenas.
in 1937 with an all-black basketball
He brought heavyweight champion
team barnstorming throughout the
Jack Dempsey and Max Baer to Des
Midwest. They were the Chicago Hot
Moines in the late '30s, plus tennis
cri' Tots (formerly the Savoy Big Five),
stars Bill Tilden and Ellsworth Vines.
followed by the Original Famous
Grund also was ahead of his time as
Globetrotters, also known as Grund's
an
activist in race relations, champi-
Trotters and the Harlem Globesters.
oning
the cause of black athletes,
But Grund was forced to drop the
including
them in sports events dur-
Globetrotter name and use Harlem
ing
an
era
of racial discrimination and
Roadkings in the late 1940s after he
antisemitism in the '30s, '40s and
was sued by Abe Saperstein, owner of
'50s. "He always worked for the
the Harlem Globetrotters. In the
underdog, making sure the players got
1950s, Grund barnstormed with the
an adequate percentage of the gate
Harlem Magicians, featuring two of
from the small high-school-gym
the most famous former
crowds," said Ceresnie.
Globetrotters: Reese (Goose) Tatum
"He was highly devoted to his teams
and Marques Haynes, the master drib-
and
treated the black players like his
bler.
family. They had to stay on the 'other
"Promoting the Globetrotters was
side of the tracks,' especially in the
his longest-running accomplishment,
southern towns. They often stayed at
and gave him the most pleasure,"
the homes of black families, who were
Ceresnie noted. "And he scored a
afraid to even talk to White people. He
coup by promoting the Magicians
made sure the players had decent
with Goose and Marques. We feel the
accommodations and were fed well."
lawsuit wasn't justified, because no
During the late '50s and early '60s,
one really owned the Globetrotter
the
Grunds would occasionally take
name. It was used by many barn-
their daughters out of school and let
storming teams in the old days, and
them barnstorm along the West Coast,
sort of evolved into the Harlem
as seven-player teams traveled in cars
Globetrotters.
borrowed from a Chrysler dealer.
"The lawsuit resulted in a lot of
The players "did some of the
legal expenses and wrangling over the

