Earl Manigault was a famous American

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 player nicknamed "The Goat."
Earl Manigault was born in Charleston, South Carolina

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, and raised in Harlem

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, New York

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. He grew up playing basketball and practiced constantly. Manigault set the NYC junior high school record by scoring 57 points in a game in the late 1950s. While attending high school, Manigault's life took a fateful turn when he began associating with groups that would eventually lead to his expulsion.