Mark Johnson is the author of this newly released, informative and educational book about his father, Andy Johnson. A native of Philadelphia, his life was surrounded by outstanding athletes such as Wilt Chamberlain, Carl Green, Bob "Showboat" Hall and Alvin Attles. They were legends of basketball in the past with the NBA and the famous Harlem Globetrotters. Understanding his environment at an early age, Mark learned the difference of a fowl play, and a fair game, a lesson taught to him by his father on how to recognize a man's true character.

Mark is an educator, a respected business leader in his community, a graduated of the State University of New York, Old Westbury, and holds a BS in Science. He is a member of the Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity and a community advocate against environmental contamination. Among his outstanding accomplishments, he has owned and operated several business in the Philadelphia area. Apart from his many accomplishments, he played semi-professional basketball for the Pro-AM Leagues in Philadelphia. 

He has been actively involved in many community projects for young children in the past, and makes weekly visits to the elderly helping with chores that are too difficult for them to manage on their own. One of the new projects he has undertaken is the development of the Pre-1960's Original Harlem Globetrotters - "The Forgotten Ones". This project became a necessary mission after traveling and meeting the older players from New York to Detroit, and learning that hey have never received any compensation, any payment, or pension for the use of their names. The players that told their stories, asked Mark to represent them in this new creation of the "Forgotten Ones", the remaining Original Trotters from that era. 

Mark Johnson will be the first (Legitimate) representative who's soul purpose is to establish an organization dedicated in getting pensions, health insurance and recognition of all their accomplishments. He will also create a legacy for his father, as well as a legacy for the former Original Harlem Globetrotters that were discriminated against during the Civil Rights era. This new Outreach Program and Scholarship Fund will benefit generations in the future. This would be the dream his father would have hoped for and it will highlight certain factors lost in the past of how the Trotters paved the way for the NBA organization we witness today.