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The World's Greatest Team - A Portrait of the Boston Celtics 1957–69 - cover

The World's Greatest Team - A Portrait of the Boston Celtics 1957–69

Jeff Greenfield

Publisher: Open Road Media

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The definitive history of the most dominant team in American sports historyNo superlatives are equal to the Boston Celtics of the 1960s. From 1959 to 1966 they won championship after championship, an eight-in-a-row streak that outshines any other in American sports. Led by coach Red Auerbach, center Bill Russell, and point guard Bob Cousy, they played a kind of basketball that seemed to come from an earlier era. Auerbach’s Celtics played clean, honest, and strong, winning time and again by working as a team in a sport that is too often dominated by superstars. This book is a season-by-season history of their dynasty, covering thirteen years of breathtaking success—a level of brilliance that may never be reached again.
Available since: 06/28/2011.
Print length: 208 pages.

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