In 1858, a New Yorker named Abraham Curry bought most of the area that became known as Eagle Valley. He promoted it as the site of the future state capital. Major William M. Ormsby, an early ...

But his imprint on basketball, and sports more broadly, extends far beyond Curry’s signature long-distance shot. In a new book, “Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports ...