Boston Celtics: Where Have You Gone?
by Mike Carey, Michael D McClellan
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Author: Michael D McClellan, Mike CareyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-01
ISBN: 1582619530
Number of pages: 192
Publisher: Sports Publishing
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Book Review: Bleeding Green
Summary: 5 Stars
As with the rest of the books in the publisher's series, the Celtics version of Where Have You Gone? is a walk down memory lane for sports fans. Sports move so fluidly and unendingly forward that stars and bit players alike are left by the wayside when their effectiveness wanes. The greatest of all time receive post-career accolades, but millions of athletes are not even afforded the opportunity to announce retirement. Their careers fizzle, and then they are gone.
The authors bring the Celtics of old back for an encore, whether they played a full twenty-year career, or had, in the case of Glenn McDonald, "two minutes of fame."
Summary of Boston Celtics: Where Have You Gone?
When the Boston Celtics were running-and-gunning their way to 16 world championships, New England fans displayed their approval of the team's effort and heart by rooting especially hard for the bench players. It didn't matter whether a particular favorite was the sixth man or the twelfth. As long as the "chosen" player possessed determination, guts, emotion and, above all, hustle, the Celtics faithful would reward that player with cascades of applause and chants. Fringe players-don't call them scrubs-became cult heroes. Yes, the Garden crowds were in absolute heaven when subs such as "High Henry" Finkel, Greg Kite, Eric Fernsten, Terry Duerod, Kevin "Oscar" Gamble, Wayne Kreklow, and Charles Bradley shed their warm-ups and scampered down to the scorer's table to enter a game. Seldom did these players spend more than a couple of years in green-and-white uniforms before they were either waived or nabbed in an expansion draft. Still, to this day, their names and contributions have not been forgotten. Likewise, fans have not forgotten the dark days when Marvin "Bad News" Barnes, Sidney Wicks, Curtis Rowe, Bob McAdoo, Shammond Williams and Acie Earl aimlessly roamed on the parquet floor as the Celtics embarrassed themselves in defeat after defeat. Some players achieved star status in the face of long odds thanks to the results of one game in particular. What long-time Boston fan can ever forget Glenn McDonald's crucial string of clutch jumpers in the third overtime of Boston's 1976 playoff victory over the Phoenix Suns? Boston Celtics: Where Have You Gone? catches up with these long-remembered players and relives their impact (good or bad) on their Celtic teams. No longer will you have to wonder, "Whatever happened to...?"Reference Books
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