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The Boston Celtics Encyclopedia | 
 enlarge | Author: Peter C Bjarkman
Publisher: Sagamore Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $34.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 1204884
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 350
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 8.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1582610622
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.323640974461
EAN: 9781582610627
ASIN: 1582610622
Publication Date: January 2000
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Condition: BRAND NEW Autographed by Peter C Bjarkman Author; over 240 pages; HUGE; "The story of professional basketball-in the large bulk of its chapters--reduces neatly to the story of the Boston Celtics. In the late 1950s and throughout the decade of the 1960s, here was not only the first great dynasty club of the infant professional roundball sport, but the greatest dynasty in the history of American sports....The Boston Celtics Encyclopedia provides the first comprehensive volume devoted exclusively to the narrative saga, statistical records, and photographic history of the most famous teawm in professional basketball annals, and also the most relentlessly successful dynasty franchise in all of American sports history. This handsome ten chapter book contains era by era historical accounts, player portraits, profiles of celtics coaches and more...
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The most comprehensive book ever written on the history of the NBA's most storied franchise, The Boston Celtics Encyclopedia should be included in every sports fan's library. Written in a unique, easy-to-read style, the Celtics Encyclopedia brings to life the exploits of such Celtic legends as Larry Bird, Bill Russell, Red Auerbach, Kevin McHale, John Havlicek, and Bob Cousy. In addition to individual profiles, there are also detailed sketches about all 16 of the Celtics' world championships. All the stories, all the trivia, all the statistics -- there isn't anything left out of this book.
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 If you are a Celtic fan don't buy this book December 30, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Despite being from Basque Country, Europe, i've been a big Celtic fan since 1985-86, when i was a child and became watching on tv the greatest team my eyes have ever seen. In the following years, despite all the sufferings, i've continue being a big fan, and tough i'm from Vitoria, where plays one of the greatest team in Europe, a team where have played for example Calderon, Nocioni, Macijauskas and right now are playing future NBA players like Scola and Splitter, my only team are the Celtics.
I bought this book despite knowing all the history of the Celtics, but i thought that it would be interesting to have all it in a book ordered and with nice photos and stats.
So when i put my hands on the book, i was pretty happy. The encyclopedia looked serious, with chapters embracing all the Celts history, with a lot of images ( in black and white, only 8 pages of the book are in colour, in the middle of the book ), a lot of stats, description of the Hall of Famers, other Celtic important players....
The problem started when i began to read the book. I don't mind that the writter won't be a diehard Celtic fan. Is an encyclopedia, so i expect objective facts wrote without passion. The problem is that the writer wrotes with passion, but with ANTICELTIC passion. Yes friends, Peter C. Bjarkman is the most Anticeltic person you could ever know, specially AntiBird era, and he has wrote a Celtic Encyclopedia, for the money, of course. The stupidities start soon; for example, he accuses Red Auerbach of be a racist ! Ok, you will say, sure he will have a lot of information about this unknown fact, no? No. His only proof is so surrealistic that you will understand by this guy is so pathetic. Red said one time that if he would have to pick a player to build a champion team, he would chose Larry Bird. Ok, maybe you would pick Magic, Russell, Jordan, Chamberlain... Maybe Jabbar... But is very clear that Larry, the most complete player of the NBA history along with Magic Johnson, is one of the clear choices. But for our writer, this Red's afirmation is so stupid, that this proves that is a racist, because for him is so obvious that Russell was a much better player that the only reason to not chose him proves that Red, the person that give Russell the opportunity to became the first black coach in NBA, is a racist. Unbelievable. Of course his ration of garbage don't finish here. He also says that any person would choose Robertson (?), Wilt or Jordan and not Bird. Then he continues his AntiCeltic attacks saying that " The Big Three " (almost unanimously considered the best frontcourt that has ever played the game ), isn't by any means the best. He cites the Minneapolis Lakers frontcourt of the beginning of the 50s, one in which played Mikan, and his main reason is that they won 5 NBA championships. Yes, but quantity and quality are equal terms? Of course not. In that era, there were only 10 teams in the league, the clock possession doesn't existed, and the basketball average level of play was quite low.
He continues his attacks saying that the '86 Celts, considered by all the experts to be the greatest team ever along with the '87 Lakers, isn't the greatest Celt team. He says that the 60's Celts were a better team.... Well, i don't know if in the 1985-86 season you were in coma or watching only the Bulls games, but any person that watched that level of play knows that that team was probably the best team ever. I will die and that 50-1 record at home will continue unbreakable.
The conclusion i reached after reading all the book is that the writer hates the Bird Celtics. He tries to minimize the importance of Bird in the develop of the NBA, the excellence of that team, and most pathetic, he forgets that he is writing a book that surely only Celtics fans will buy, and tries to convince the reader that his anticeltic statements are the only truth. For all of this, if you are a diehard Celtic fan, i don't recommend this book, you will feel hurt.
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 TONS OF INFO AND PHOTOS December 11, 2006
THIS IS A MUST READ FOR ALL CELTIC AND BASKETBALL FANS. THIS BOOK COVERS THE HISTORY OF THE CELTICS UP TO 2002. IT HAS SO MUCH INFO AND STATS IT WILL TAKE AWHILE TO GET THROUGH THE WHOLE THING. IT IS ALSO A GREAT BOOK TO USE OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO CHECK YEAR TO YEAR STATS OF EVERY CELTIC WHO EVER PLAYED. ALSO HAS EVERY SEASON TO SEASON COVERAGE AND ANALYSIS AND A GREAT COLLECTION OF PHOTOS OF OWNERS, PLAYER AND BROADCASTERS. A MUST FOR ALL CELTIC FANS.
I still can't believe that which I saw for myself .... November 19, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
... during the Golden Era of American professional sports, 1955-70, featuring it's greatest, most hard-nosed performer (Bill Russell) and its greatest, most successful statesman (Red Auerbach). Plus a few other "pretty good" players .... my memory is fading but I do remember a couple of last names starting with "H" and a couple of them starting with "J."
As a sports-hungry kid back then, I was a Jerry West fan but the Celtics were so damn good I actually thought them to be cheating.
Though in hindsight I guess I was really a "Celtics fan in Lakers clothing" because I have finally admitted after all these years that things turned out just the way they were supposed to.
Too bad we didn't have the video technology back then that have today; in which case I would be watching tapes of the Old Celtics 24/7 .... starving, but very, very happy.
At any rate the NBA, at the very least, will never be the same.
Great info for Celtic-Nation.com October 23, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I help run a website (http://www.celtic-nation.com) and we got a ton of good information from this book. Great for the die hard Celtics fan! Highly recommended for anyone in your family or life who wants to know everything about the Boston Celtics!
CELTICS LEGENDS February 7, 2003
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
THIS IS A GREAT BOOK. IT ABOUT THE CELTICS THE NBA.
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