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Title: Wilt Chamberlain
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Roark, James
Date Created and/or Issued: 1972
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1899-1989.
Wilt Chamberlain slams one home. The first of L.A.'s dominant centers, Chamberlain ended a decade of heart-break in 1972 by leading the Lakers to their first NBA title. A high-school track star who later became an avid beach volleyball player, Chamberlain was, as the Herald-Examiner's Mel Durslag put it, "the Matterhorn with muscles." He died in 1999.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00048954
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2666.
CARL0000053030
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17444
Subject: Chamberlain, Wilt,--1936-1999
Foum (Inglewood, Calif.)
Los Angeles Lakers (Basketball team)
Basketball--United States
Basketball players--United States
Inglewood (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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