Most sports fans know that Wilt Chamberlain was a seven foot one inch basketball player who once scored 100 points in a game and this was before the three point goal was introduced. His high school team played my school for the Philadelphia City Championship and our coach set a table in front of the basket during practice with a player standing on top imitating the tall opponent. Now fifteen years after his death he is being honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a postage stamp of his likeness. In recognition of his height and stature the stamp is two inches "long". They are printing fifty million of these "forever" stamps and that's a lot of mucilage!
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