Description
Includes the 2024 Championship Win! Experience the illustrious and passionate history of The Boston Celtics, the winningest team in NBA history, as it happened through the articles, features, and lens of their hometown and national news outlet, The Boston Globe. From the moment the Boston Celtics first set foot on their parquet floor in the inaugural 1946 season through the 2024 championship season, The Boston Globe has covered the NBA's most storied franchise with the journalistic equivalent of a fullcourt press. For nearly 80 years, The Boston Globe's generations of stalwart writers and reporters have been there to document it all in real time, with feature stories, columns, and game reports, from founder Walter A. Brown's early faith in the fledgling team through the Bill Russell dynasty, the Larry Bird golden era, and of course, the 18 championships, the most by any NBA franchise.
The Boston Globe Story of the Celtics is a never-before-published collection of hundreds of the most incisive, informative, and entertaining articles edited by award-winning columnist Chad Finn and written by acclaimed reporters such as Bob Ryan, Jackie MacMullan, Leigh Montville, Dan Shaughnessy, Baxter Holmes, Gary Washburn, and Adam Himmelsbach.
Story of the Celtics brings to life the most important and impactful moments in the team's illustrious history, and archival photographs illustrate every era up to the current season in this special collection brought to you by two storied Boston institutions.
Author: The Boston Globe, Chad Finn
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.40h x 7.70w x 1.40d
ISBN13: 9780762487530
ISBN10: 0762487534
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Basketball
- Sports & Recreation | History
- Sports & Recreation | Coaching | Basketball
The Boston Globe Story of the Celtics is a never-before-published collection of hundreds of the most incisive, informative, and entertaining articles edited by award-winning columnist Chad Finn and written by acclaimed reporters such as Bob Ryan, Jackie MacMullan, Leigh Montville, Dan Shaughnessy, Baxter Holmes, Gary Washburn, and Adam Himmelsbach.
Story of the Celtics brings to life the most important and impactful moments in the team's illustrious history, and archival photographs illustrate every era up to the current season in this special collection brought to you by two storied Boston institutions.
Author: The Boston Globe, Chad Finn
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.00lbs
Size: 9.40h x 7.70w x 1.40d
ISBN13: 9780762487530
ISBN10: 0762487534
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Basketball
- Sports & Recreation | History
- Sports & Recreation | Coaching | Basketball
About the Author
The Boston Globe, a 27-time Pulitzer Prize winner for outstanding national and local journalism, is a leading daily metro newspaper and has served Greater Boston and New England for 150 years. With the largest newsroom in the region, the Globe produces award-winning news, analysis, and entertainment and hosts community events that connect millions of readers to stories and ideas of critical importance to their communities.
Chad Finn is a sports and media columnist at The Boston Globe, where he has worked since 2003. He authored The Boston Globe Story of the Red Sox in 2023, and has won multiple Associated Press Sports Editors national awards. In 2020, '21, and '22 he was voted Favorite Sportswriter in Boston in the Channel Media Market Survey.