Pollack forever a part of Chamberlain's historic night
23.05.12
Since the game was not televised and there is no surviving video of the night, it is the enduring image of March 2, 1962: A seated and smiling Chamberlain holding up the page with the hand-scrawled figure.
100.
"From that night on, it was always Wilt's number," Pollack said with his trademark cackle. "But I can still tell people now that it was my number, too. I mean, it really was my number. I wrote it."
Through the years, the decades, closing in on three-quarters of a century, it is likely that nobody has written more numbers about more sports than Pollack, most especially the NBA. He was there for the founding of the Basketball Association of America in 1946, keeping the numbers for the Philadelphia Warriors, and is the only person continuously employed in the league through all of its 66 years, officially the director of statistical information for the Philadelphia 76ers since 1987.
Pollack has charted the dunks of Julius "Dr. J" Erving and the backboard smashing of Darryl Dawkins, coined the term triple-double in Magic Johnson's rookie year, dueled with the legendary Red Auerbach and compiled "Harvey Pollack's NBA Statistical Yearbook," which has grown to 332 pages and includes enough arcane facts to fill up every inch of a basketball court.
Source: ESPN