num_pages: 208
description: The definitive history of the most dominant team in American sports history No superlatives are equal to the Boston Celtics of the 1960s. From 1959 to 1966 they won championship after championship an eight-in-a-row streak that outshines any other in American sports. Led by coach Red Auerbach center Bill Russell and point guard Bob Cousy they played a kind of basketball that seemed to come from an earlier era. Auerbachs Celtics played clean honest and strong winning time and again by working as a team in a sport that is too often dominated by superstars. This book is a season-by-season history of their dynasty covering thirteen years of breathtaking successa level of brilliance that may never be reached again.
language: English
title: The World's Greatest Team: A Portrait of the Boston Celtics, 1957–69
publisher: Open Road Media