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Let Me Tell You a Story: A Lifetime in the Game | 
 enlarge | Authors: John Feinstein, Red Auerbach
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 205618
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0316010723
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780316010726
ASIN: 0316010723
Publication Date: October 18, 2005
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Product Description
Americas favorite sportswriter and the legendary Boston Celtics coach join forces to produce one of the most richly entertaining books ever written about the game of basketball. The hardcover edition appeared on the extended New York Times bestseller list for nine weeks and has sold more than 100,000 copies to date. Auerbach colorfully recalls all the players and coaches he worked with and played against: Bill Russell, Larry Bird, Bob Cousy, Wilt Chamberlain, Sam Jones, and Michael Jordanyou name them, the basketball greats are here. John Feinstein has written two of the bestselling sports books of all time, A Season on the Brink and A Good Walk Spoiled, and his books have been a fixture on bestseller lists for the past two decades.
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 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.
what took me so long to read this book? October 12, 2007
I'm not the greatest John Feinstein fan. Sometimes he's really good, but sometimes he just seems like he's trying to be elitist. But when I heard about this book, I put it on my list to buy. Two years later I finally got around to it. My loss.
Red Auerbach was the institutional memory of the NBA as well as the guy who created the Celtic dynasty. He was a master storyteller and collector of people. This book is the story of lunch with Red every Tuesday, 11am @ the China Doll restaurant. Just as importantly it is the story of the people Red collected and his influence on their lives.
No one will claim this book is objective-it's not supposed to be. I'm sure Red had flaws, but I really don't care. For older boomers he and John Wooden define greatness in basketball. I'm just glad to have the stories.
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