The Philadelphia Panthers mountain Head for the desert

Head for the desert

Pay homage to a classic look that’s stood the test of time

By the beard of Zeus

they’re also two of the best to ever play the game

Grab the peanuts and crackerjacks and head down to the Great American Ball Park for some Cincinnati-style baseball: the Reds are in town

The Philadelphia Panthers mountain Head for the desertThe Philadelphia Panthers were an all black basketball team of the 1910s and 1920s. It grew out of the citys Christian Street (a. k. a. Southwest) Colored YMCA in the late 1910s, when Philadelphia emerged as a black basketball power base with such teams as nearby Lincoln University, the Vandals and Buccaneers of Atlantic City, the Briscoe Five, and the Southwest Scholastics. They were so successful and popular that African Americans in the City of