RE: Re: Celt books

[Magnus Dahlborn <mdahlborn@tv3.com>]

I liked all the old stuff: Tommy H's, Cousy's, and Russell's Second
Wind.
All of them completely different, but they give you a picture of NBA,
and US, in the fifties and sixties.
All these books can be found in paperback versions now.
Of all the books maybe Second Wind has the best substance, and that
takes you way beyond basketball.

Amazing that Tommy H. worked selling insurance's during off season.
Some extra bucks to be earned, AW?

Magnus.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	JOzersky@aol.com [SMTP:JOzersky@aol.com]
> Sent:	 den 13 februari 1998 16.57
> To:	celtics@igtc.com
> Subject:	Re:  Re: Celt books
> 
> I mentioned to the original poster a few you all should know about:
> 
> Cousy on the Celtic Mystique.  Written at the twilight of the bird
> era, but
> brilliant and absolutely free of bullshit.  Nobody is more candid than
> Cousy.
>  (even when he's saying, "can moesha find her secret admirer?  find
> out on
> Moesha, on ubs...")
> 
> Red's last book.  I think it has "hard court" in the title.  really
> good,
> like the Cousy book.  Mostly stuff you've heard him say, but worth
> rereading
> many times.
> 
> The Last Shot, by Darcy Frey.  Great book, right up there with The
> Breaks of
> the Game and Pete Axhelm's The City Game.  About talented high
> schoolers in
> coney island, including one Stephon Marbury.
> 
> Dont read the Selling of the Green.  It's disgusting, just vile.  all
> made
> up.
> 
> The author of the Bird book, also terrible, is Lee Daniel Levine, not
> Devine.
>  You learn more about bird in Unfinished Business and 48 Minutes.  
> 
> Walton's book is pretty good.  More about UCLA than the celtics.  The
> Last
> Banner I thought very disappointing.  It's all Walton, as if Peter May
> only
> bothered interviewing bill.  Weak.
> 
> Has anyone read The Big Three?  That's the one I want.  Also, Tommy
> H's book?
> 
> josh