The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings By: William Brashler Survivial Ask someone either at home or at work, "How are you doing today?" Several replies will be forthcoming. Some respond "Ok", "Fine" or "Surviving". As long as Sallie Potter's Louisville Ebony Aces were playing ball in the Negro League circuit, times and surviving were good. A steady salary, Potter's bus, driven by Potter, with reclining seats, which carried the team from one scheduled game …showed first 75 words of 976 total…

…showed last 75 words of 976 total…on the road back to Kansas City. The All-Stars played A. C. Franklin's team, The Monarchs, in Kansas City. When former owner Sallie Potter arrived, the All-Stars honed their survival ability and with good reason. Even one of their own race tried destroy them one by one. Survival is not easy. It becomes a way of life. Works Cited Brashler, William. The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1973