Something I didn't know about Red

[Snoopy the Celtics Beagle]

 From the Globe story by Brian MacQuarrie covering the Auerbach tribute today.

"Auerbach is often celebrated for drafting the first African American 
player in the NBA and starting the first team of five black players.

But Tip Thiboutot, who came to City Hall Plaza today from the North 
End in a wheel chair, said Auerbach did more than break down the 
color barrier.

Auerbach was the man who first allowed the handicapped to play their 
own sport on the floor of the Boston Garden, said Thiboutot, a former 
vice president of the International Wheel Chair Basketball Federation.

"He was a symbol of integration for African American and he can be 
viewed as a symbol of integration for wheel chair basketball as 
well," Thiboutot said. "

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