WILT CHAMBERLAIN-SIGNED 100-POINT GAME HOME OFFICIAL SCORER’S SHEET
BY PHILADELPHIA WARRIORS STATISTICIAN TOBY DELUCA (IMPECCABLE PROVENANCE)
BY PHILADELPHIA WARRIORS STATISTICIAN TOBY DELUCA (IMPECCABLE PROVENANCE)
The scoresheet used to record Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game in 1962 sold for $214,579 in SCP Auctions’ Spring Premier Auction 2019 that closed April 27. e scoresheet is a piece of history as it recorded the NBA’s greatest single scoring game that occurred March 2, 1962. e sheet attracted 22 bids.
From SCP Auctions: “Fresh to the hobby and newly discovered comes the actual home team’s official score sheet from Wilt’s epic 100-point performance. e official scorer that evening for the Warriors was team statistician Toby DeLuca, who scored the game for Philly’s play-by-play announcer on WCAU radio, Bill Campbell. Not only did Wilt e Stilt set the single-game scoring record (Kobe’s 81 remains a distant 2nd), but the teams combined for what was, at the time, the
highest scoring game in NBA history, with the Warriors beating the Knickerbockers, 169-147. e end result on paper was this busy, convoluted score sheet in multiple colors with Chamberlain’s endless row of points overflowing into teammate Guy Rodgers’ line below. is is the very score sheet precisely documented in best-selling author Gary Pomerantz’s critically acclaimed book Wilt, 1962 on page 116 – right down to DeLuca’s switch to red pencil to differentiate from Wilt’s point totals in the 2nd half. Presumably that same night, Chamberlain blessed the important document with his very own signature and “Best Wishes” inscription in blue ballpoint pen. According to PSA/DNA analysis, the era-appropriate, early ‘60s autograph is done in what appears to be the same blue ballpoint pen used to tally each team’s 3rd and 4th quarter scoring totals on the sheet.”