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It all started with a peach basket in a YMCA gym.

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Now millions of youngsters play basketball from coast to coast.

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In the back of their minds, there is usually one thought, to have one big night, to score a lot of points.

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Let's go back a few years to Philadelphia, where a very tall basketball player was rewriting the record books at Overbrook High School.

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College after college sought the very effective young point maker.

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He chose Kansas University, but even before he departed for college, the pros had an eye on him.

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They knew he was going to be great, one of the greatest ever.

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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.

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Abe Saperstein signed him and he traveled with the famed Harlem Grobetrotters.

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When he joined the Philadelphia Warriors for the start of the 1959-60 season, in no time he was rewriting the pro record.

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His scoring feats were fabulous and his rebounding sensational.

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He was a smart basketball player and he went about his job in a cool, methodical way.

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On March 22, 1962, the Warriors were playing the New York Knicks at Hershey, Pennsylvania.

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And it wasn't long before the fans got that feeling that this was going to be a special night.

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Philadelphia moved quickly to a 19-3 lead. The big guy had scored a dozen of those points.

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He wasn't much of a foul shooter, but this night he stepped to the line seven times and seven times he connected.

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As the buzzer ended the first quarter, the big guy had 23 points.

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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.

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At the half, the big guy had 44 points.

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The Warriors, especially the big guy, were cheered as they returned to the court.

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He couldn't miss. One basket after another went in.

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The fans welcomed the third quarter buzzer to catch their breath.

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The Warriors were ahead 125 to 106 and the big guy had scored 66 points.

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With one quarter to go, he needed 12 points to tie his own single game record.

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He needed 34 to hit the century mark. Could he make it and do the impossible?

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In 60 seconds, we're back to find out.

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Eight minutes were left when he hit the 79 point mark, a new league record.

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Now the crowd was screaming for the big guy to score again and again.

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With one 19 showing on the clock, he intercepted a pass, dribbled, and shot.

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The ball rimmed the basket and fell out. The crowd groaned.

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But he hadn't had a chance. He scored. Then another basket.

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The clock showed 46 seconds when the big guy took the ball with both hands, pushed it into the net.

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He had scored 100 points and the crowd went wild.

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The big guy, who is he? It was Wilt Chamberlain, the NBA's greatest superstar.