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It all started with a peach basket in a YMCA gym.
Now millions of youngsters play basketball from coast to coast.
In the back of their minds, there is usually one thought, to have one big night, to score a lot of points.
Let's go back a few years to Philadelphia, where a very tall basketball player was rewriting the record books at Overbrook High School.
College after college sought the very effective young point maker.
He chose Kansas University, but even before he departed for college, the pros had an eye on him.
They knew he was going to be great, one of the greatest ever.
In his sophomore year, he had had Kansas as a conference title, but he wasn't happy in school and quit before his class graduated.
Abe Saperstein signed him and he traveled with the famed Harlem Grobetrotters.
When he joined the Philadelphia Warriors for the start of the 1959-60 season, in no time he was rewriting the pro record.
His scoring feats were fabulous and his rebounding sensational.
He was a smart basketball player and he went about his job in a cool, methodical way.
On March 22, 1962, the Warriors were playing the New York Knicks at Hershey, Pennsylvania.
And it wasn't long before the fans got that feeling that this was going to be a special night.
Philadelphia moved quickly to a 19-3 lead. The big guy had scored a dozen of those points.
He wasn't much of a foul shooter, but this night he stepped to the line seven times and seven times he connected.
As the buzzer ended the first quarter, the big guy had 23 points.
But was far from over. In the second period, he tapped it in, hooked it in, chipped it in, and looped in his favorite fadeaway shot.
At the half, the big guy had 44 points.
The Warriors, especially the big guy, were cheered as they returned to the court.
He couldn't miss. One basket after another went in.
The fans welcomed the third quarter buzzer to catch their breath.
The Warriors were ahead 125 to 106 and the big guy had scored 66 points.
With one quarter to go, he needed 12 points to tie his own single game record.
He needed 34 to hit the century mark. Could he make it and do the impossible?
In 60 seconds, we're back to find out.
Eight minutes were left when he hit the 79 point mark, a new league record.
Now the crowd was screaming for the big guy to score again and again.
With one 19 showing on the clock, he intercepted a pass, dribbled, and shot.
The ball rimmed the basket and fell out. The crowd groaned.
But he hadn't had a chance. He scored. Then another basket.
The clock showed 46 seconds when the big guy took the ball with both hands, pushed it into the net.
He had scored 100 points and the crowd went wild.
The big guy, who is he? It was Wilt Chamberlain, the NBA's greatest superstar.