Let Me Tell You a Story: A Lifetime in the Game | 
 enlarge | Authors: Red Auerbach, John Feinstein
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: EBooks
List Price: $25.95
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 81717
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.323092
ASIN: B000V4ROIQ
Publication Date: October 1, 2004
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Red Auerbach is the architect and mastermind behind one of the most dominant franchises in professional sports history, the Boston Celtics. The cigar-chomping Auerbach wasn't a passive bench coach, but an aggressive, demanding and often volatile mentor who coached 11 Hall of Famers and led Boston to 10 Eastern Division titles in 16 years. Auerbach's passionate style reaped large rewards. From 1959-1966, the Celtics won 8 straight NBA championships, a streak unmatched in sports history. His career coaching record currently ranks fifth all-time in NBA history. Auerbach led Boston to 99 playoff victories, third all-time behind Phil Jackson and Pat Riley. He showcased his coaching prowess in 11 straight All-Star games, was named NBA Coach of the Year in 1965 and, in 1970, was selected as the NBA's 25th Anniversary All-Time Team coach. Auerbach began his coaching career in 1946 in the BAA with the Washington Capitals and led them to the 1947 and 1949 division titles. In 1950, Auerbach became head coach of the Boston Celtics. After coaching, Auerbach joined the Celtics front office full-time and in 1980 was named NBA Executive of the Year.
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 One Of The Fastest Reads You'll Have - A Fun Book October 29, 2008
One thing about Red Auerbach: love him or hate him, he's always interesting to hear. The "hear" translates to "read," as noted author John Feinstein gives us an ear to Red and his weekly group of guys who met at a Chinese restaurant and shot the bull about various topics over the years. Feinstein sat in for four of those years and relays some of the conversation.
This is an extremely fast read. It's so entertaining that you'll zip through it, laughing in many spots. It is biased: oh, yeah.....so Celtic fans will love this book more than others but everyone should enjoy it. Basketball in the "early" days, with Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West and other big stars are always fun to hear about and nobody had more opinions and/or "hot air" than Red! He is a great storyteller, as this book testifies.
I hate the Celtics July 26, 2008
but I loved reading this book. So much info in there about the history of the game and the Boston Celtics. We'll miss ya Red!
 terrific April 26, 2008
great book awesome stories. i actual went by the restaurant wherte they eat. The game lost an amazing lifer.
"The Ball in Red's C ourt" December 2, 2007
Of all the Sports that Feinstein covers I think he covers Basketball Best.
This is a superb tale of the Legendary Boston Celtic's LEADER. I was told that Red grew up in the DC area going to a Segregated Roosevelt High School. I wondered how someone coming from a Segregated Environment could draft one of the first 3 African Americans in the Now NBA. Also how he could select the first African American Coach. Well he grew up in Brooklyn in a multi-cultural Neighborhood. Fascinating stories about the Carnegie Deli area. He went to college in DC (GW) (Which I knew), and then later taught at Roosevelt (Which may have been where the confusion started.) I think it helped that I have been in the Chinatown Restaurants that are the setting for a lot of the stories, This an absolutely Great Read, and one of Feinstein's best.
Great read for all basketball fans November 27, 2007
I have never been a fan of the Celtics, but a big basketball fan none the less. Having said that, this book was perfect for me. It is a in-depth, personal look into the life of the greatest coach in basketball history, as told not only by the man himself, but the great writer John Feinstein. This book gives great insight not only the the makings of the Celtic dynasty, but into the beginnings of the games, and how Red has shaped the game into what it is today. Must read for all basketball fans.
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