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Jetée · 06-19-2010, 01:37 PM

Manute Bol, former Washington Bullet and one of NBA's tallest players, dies at 47

In 1987, when the Bullets signed 5-foot-3 Muggsy Bogues, they had the shortest and tallest
players in NBA history on the team at the same time. Bol was 7 feet, 6¾ inches in bare feet.

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Manute Bol, who became a basketball sensation in the 1980s as a skeletally
thin shot-blocking giant with the Washington Bullets and other professional teams,
and who devoted his post-basketball life to improving the lot of his fellow natives of Sudan,
died June 19 at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. He was 47.

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06-19-2010, 01:37 PM	#130 (permalink)
Jetée The Reforms Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition	Manute Bol, former Washington Bullet and one of NBA's tallest players, dies at 47 In 1987, when the Bullets signed 5-foot-3 Muggsy Bogues, they had the shortest and tallest players in NBA history on the team at the same time. Bol was 7 feet, 6¾ inches in bare feet. excerpt: Manute Bol, who became a basketball sensation in the 1980s as a skeletally thin shot-blocking giant with the Washington Bullets and other professional teams, and who devoted his post-basketball life to improving the lot of his fellow natives of Sudan, died June 19 at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. He was 47. [TheWashingtonPost.] __________________ As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi Last edited by Jetée; 06-19-2010 at 01:41 PM..