Wilt, 1962: The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era
by Gary M. Pomerantz
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On March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, young and striking athlete Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knickerbockers. As historic and revolutionary as the achievement was, it remains shrouded in myth. The game was not televised; no New York sportswriters showed up. In telling the story, author Gary M. Pomerantz brings to life a lost world of American sports, tracking down players, fans, journalists, and basketball historians, conducting more than 250 show more interviews, to recreate the game in painstaking detail. In 1962, the NBA, stepchild to the college game, was searching for its identity. Its teams were mostly white, the number of black players limited by an unspoken quota. Games were played in half-filled arenas, and the players traveled on buses and trains. Into this scene stepped the unprecedented Chamberlain: strong and quick-witted, a seven-footer who played with a colossal will and a dancer's grace.--From publisher description. show lessTags
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He is a distinguished visiting professor of journalism at Emory University, received the Sigma Delta Chi award in 1999 for feature writing and the Ernie Pyle Award for human interest writing for his seven-part series in the Atlanta Journal Constitution on the airplane crash that is the subject of his book Nine Minutes, Twenty Seconds.. He lives show more with his wife and three children Atlanta. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Wilt Chamberlain
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- Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, History
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- 796.323 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Sports Ball sports Ball and net sports Basketball
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- GV885.7 .P66 — Geography, Anthropology and Recreation Recreation. Leisure Recreation. Leisure Sports Ball games: Baseball, football, golf, etc.
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