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  On the night
of March 2, 1962, in Hershey, Pennsylvania, right up the street from the chocolate factory, Wilt Chamberlain, a young
and striking athlete celebrated as the Big Dipper, scored one hundred 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; and a fourteen-year-old local boy ran onto the court when
Chamberlain scored his hundredth point, shook his hand, and then ran off with the basketball. In telling the story of
this remarkable night, author Gary M. Pomerantz brings to life a lost world of American sports.
  
  In 1962,
the National Basketball Association, 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 drafty, half-filled arenas,
and the players traveled on buses and trains, telling tall tales, playing cards, and sometimes reading Joyce. Into this
scene stepped the unprecedented Wilt Chamberlain: strong and quick-witted, voluble and enigmatic, a seven-footer who
played with a colossal will and a dancer’s grace. That strength, will, grace, and mystery were never more in
focus than on March 2, 1962. Pomerantz tracked down Knicks and Philadelphia Warriors, fans, journalists, team officials,
other NBA stars of the era, and basketball historians, conducting more than 250 interviews in all, to recreate in
painstaking detail the game that announced the Dipper’s greatness. He brings us to Hershey, Pennsylvania, a
sweet-seeming model of the gentle, homogeneous small-town America that was fast becoming anachronistic. We see the fans
and players, alternately fascinated and confused by Wilt, drawn anxiously into the spectacle. Pomerantz portrays the
other legendary figures in this story: the Warriors’ elegant coach Frank McGuire; the beloved, if rumpled, team
owner Eddie Gottlieb; and the irreverent p.a. announcer Dave “the Zink” Zinkoff, who handed out free salamis
courtside.
  
  At the heart of the book is the self-made Chamberlain, a romantic cosmopolitan who owned a
nightclub in Harlem and shrugged off segregation with a bebop cool but harbored every slight deep in his psyche. March
2, 1962, presented the awesome sight of Wilt Chamberlain imposing himself on a world that would diminish him. Wilt, 1962
is not only the dramatic story of a singular basketball game but a meditation on small towns, midcentury America, and
one of the most intriguing figures in the pantheon of sports heroes.
  
  Publisher: Crown; First Edition edition (April 26, 2005)
  Language: English
  ISBN-10:
1400051606
  ISBN-13: 978-1400051601
  
  Editorial Reviews
  From Publishers
Weekly
  On March 2, 1962, in a drafty, half-full, 8,000-seat arena in Hershey, Pa., Wilt Chamberlain (aka the
Big Dipper) scored a stunning 100 points in a single game against the New York Knicks-a watershed moment for the
fledgling NBA. Drawing on interviews he conducted with various team members, fans, journalists and referees, Pomerantz
(Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn) recreates this historic night in startling detail, bringing everyone from
Chamberlain, to the Knicks' defensive player Darrall Imhoff, to the caustic journalist Jack Kiser to vivid life. For
Pomerantz, Chamberlain and Imhoff "symbolized pro basketball's accelerating generational shift writ large: the agile
black athlete, swift and strong, moving freely against a white opponent who, though young, earnest, and determined,
seemed... a handsome blond shrine to a bygone era when all of the players were white." Pomerantz explores the racial
tension of the era through Chamberlain's experiences, fluidly transitioning from the action on the court to moments in
the player's life and then back again. In one instance, he's finger-rolling a ball into the basket, and in the next,
he's at Big Wilt's Smalls Paradise, the Harlem nightclub he part-owned, talking about how many good African-Americans
were left out of the league due to its racial quotas. Throughout this surprisingly touching narrative, Pomerantz does a
remarkable job of making Chamberlain, the world he inhabited and that mythic night shine all over again. 8-page b&w
photo insert.
  
  From Booklist
  The game in which Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points for the
Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks, on March 2, 1962, belongs on the short list of modern sports'
defining moments. Robert Allen Cherry discusses the event in his fine biography, Wilt: Larger than Life (2004); but
Pomerantz looks in more detail at the accomplishment and places it in its rightful context. He notes, for example, that
Chamberlain's 100 points is 51 percent better than David Thompson's 1978 second-place total of 73. And the 100-point
game was merely consistent with Chamberlain's unconscious 1961-62 season averages of 50 points, 25.7 rebounds per game.
The 100-point game also announced a fundamental change in the style in which basketball would henceforth be played and
in the racial makeup of the men who could and would play it. While Pomerantz writes a suspenseful narrative of the game,
he also delivers an engaging, full-bodied portrait of one of the great athletes of our time. An excellent companion to
Cherry's biography but also a sports book that can stand on its own. Alan Moores
  Copyright © American Library
Association. All rights reserved
  
  Most Helpful Customer Reviews
  
  Unexpected suprise
  By Judith Grant on May 27, 2005
  I loved this book! Initially I
thought -- no way would I read a book on Wilt and basketball history. Then, I stumbled across a two page preview in
Parade Magazine and thought-this guy can write! Pomerantz' interesting storytelling immediately captivated me. The most
compelling for me, a non basketball afficianiado, is how he took me right into the heart of the historical, cultural and
race sensibilities through sports in the fifties and 60's and through this truly unparalleled player, Wilt. Add to this,
now I have some sports legend history at my fingertips for conversations.
  
  Hershey Native Reviews
Wilt, 1962
  By Ernest W. Accorsi on May 19, 2005
  I was born and raised in Hershey, Pa., and worked
as an usher at the Hershey Arena all through high school. I saw every sporting event in that remarkable little town
throughout my life. But I missed that game. I was away at college, Wake Forest University, and missed the greatest night
in the history of my hometown.
  
  Obviously, the story of this game, this player (the Warriors trained in
Hershey as did the Eagles) and this town is very personal for me.
  
  Gary Pomerantz did an eloquent job of
capturing the times, the player, the game and the town. He grasps the sensitivity of the social issues of the time
(remember JFK's New Frontier was in full bloom) and the hearts and the minds of the people who lived. He describes with
brilliance this innocent period and the bigger than life presence of Wilt Chamberlain, who dominated it and bent it to
his will.
  
  This is a book of history, of sport and the civil rights movement and of a man who captured all
of our imaginations until the day he left us.
  
  
  
						

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