Wilt Chamberlain: Borscht Belt Bellhop
Wilt Chamberlain: Borscht Belt Bellhop

Wilt Chamberlain: Borscht Belt Bellhop

April 19, 2013 | 9 min

In 1954, before his senior year of high school, Wilt Chamberlain took a summer job that would change his life, working as a bellhop at Kutsher's Country Club, a Jewish resort in the Catskill Mountains. An unexplored and pivotal chapter in the life of one of basketball's greatest players, and a fascinating glimpse of a time when a very different era of basketball met the Borscht Belt in its heyday.

Genres

Documentary History

Cast

Naomi Scott

Wilt Chamberlain

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