Philadelphia sportswriter Donald Hunt is leading a grass roots effort to have the late Wilt Chamberlain's image emblazoned on a commemorative U.S. postage stamp. Hunt argues that Chamberlain, who is in the basketball Hall of Fame and the only player in NBA history to score 100 points in a game, deserves to join Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Joe Louis, and Jesse Owens as sports figures who have their own stamps. Granted, Chamberlain was a tremendous basketball player and perhaps one of the greatest ever to play the game; however, he is not an iconic figure like Robinson, Ruth, Louis, and Owens, whose achievements transcended the games they played and impacted the larger society.
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