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Reece "Goose" Tatum (May 31, 1921 – January 18, 1967) was an American multi-sport athlete.

Born in El Dorado, Arkansas, Reece Tatum played Negro League Baseball before becoming a star basketball player with the Harlem Globetrotters. He is considered to be the original "clown prince" of the Trotters. He wove numerous comic routines into his play, of which many would reach cult status.

Tatum was a man with incredibly long limbs. It is reported that he had an arm span of more than 80 inches and could touch his kneecaps without bending.

He is credited to have invented the hook shot, aka skyhook, a shot for which later superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar would become famous.

Reece Tatum passed away in 1967 at the age of forty-five in El Paso, Texas. A veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, he was interred in the Fort Bliss National Cemetery.

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