Athlete, Entertainer. Buie lost his left arm in a near fatal car accident near Pine Bluff, Arkansas, when he was 13 years old. His family worked diligently with him for over a year to teach him how to maintain his balance and learn how to perform day-to-day activities like tying his shoes and basic chores around the farm where he grew up. Learning to play basketball with one arm drove him to stardom as the leading scorer at St. Peters High School, which was transformed from a perennial loser to the championship game in his senior year. At Tennessee A&I (now Tennessee State University) from 1943 through 1946, he led the Tigers from a mediocre team to the Negro National champions in 1946 defeating Langston University who had been undefeated 3 years in a row. During his senior year in high school, he was offered a contract to play for the Harlem Globetrotters, but his family's emphasis on education demanded for academic achievement first, therefore he completed his bachelor's degree in Health and Physical Education with a minor in Science in three years by attending school year round while working as a barber. After graduating in 1946, he signed with the Globetrotters. During his 9 year career with the team, he was a starter averaging 14 points per game and was one of the most accurate jump shooters on the squad with stars Marques Haynes, Goose Tatum, Pops Gates and Sweetwater Clifton. His scoring acumen and ball handling skills earned him the nick names "One Armed Wonder" and "One Armed Firecracker". During his career with the Globetrotters, they beat the champion Minneapolis Laker two out of three games over the course of two seasons and toured the post World War II globe travelling to 61 countries as ambassadors of basketball and America. As the NBA began to integrate with former Harlem Globetrotters and Negro College stars, Buie embarked on an entrepreneurial path and started his own team, the Harlem Stars, in the second half of the 1950s. Headquartered in Compton, California, his team traversed the world through the 1970s and were known for their crisp passing, trick shots, clowning and winning.