The Boston Celtics Encyclopedia [Paperback]

Peter C B Jarkman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 23, 2002

The Boston Celtics Encyclopedia provides the first comprehensive volume devoted to the narrative saga, statistical records, and photographic history of the most famous team in professional basketball annals, 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 Celtic coaches and significant front-office personnel, and re-creations of the most memorable games and seasons of franchise history. No pro team in any sport provides a more impressive gallery of living legends culled from the team history. One prominent feature of this book is its vivid descriptive portraits capturing on-court playing styles, off-court personalities, memorable moments, and career achievements of fifteen Boston Celtics stars who have earned (or are shoo-ins to earn) permanent enshrinement in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Other Celtics stars and memorable journeymen, as well as great Celtics moments, are also here brought to life by one of pro basketball's leading historians.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"...the book is loaded with the kind of information basketball fans (and especially Celtic fans) will savor..." --TodaysSports.com --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

PETER C. BJARKMAN writes extensively about baseball, basketball, and travel-related topics. He has published two previous books on Cuban baseball, plus a history of baseball in Latin America and more than three dozen other titles treating major league baseball, NBA basketball, and NCAA basketball. His recent work includes team history encyclopedias on the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Celtics, and New York Knicks. A fluent Spanish speaker, Bjarkman has twice been featured on Cuban national television discussing Cuban League baseball and the Cuban national team, the only American to claim this distinction during the 40-plus years of the Cuban Revolution.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 350 pages
• Publisher: Sports Publishing LLC; 2 edition (October 23, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1582615640
• ISBN-13: 978-1582615646
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,325,921 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Peter Bjarkman is widely recognized as a leading authority on Cuban baseball, both pre- and post-revolution. He has covered the Cuban League and the Cuban national team for the popular website www.BaseballdeCuba.com since 2007 and has traveled widely with the Cubnan national team to international tournaments for the past fifteen years. His volume entitled A HISTORY OF CUBAN BASEBALL, 1864-2006 (McFarland, 2007) is universally considered the seminal work on the history of the island nation's national pastime. Bjarkman has also written widely over the past 20 years on Latin American baseball, major league baseball, and NCAA and NBA basketball. He has appeared in numerous television and radio interviews and in more than a dozen documentary films on baseball and basketball history. Bjarkman can also be found at www.bjarkman.com, www.BaseballdeCuba.com, and on his popular MLB Blog (Bjarkman's Latino and Cuban Baseball History Page) which has been an MLB "Top 100 Blog Site" for the past two years (2008, 2009).

Customer Reviews

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Celtics Encyclopedia Scores with Frommer, April 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Boston Celtics Encyclopedia (Hardcover)

Reviewing Bjarkman's "Celtics Encyclopedia" on Todaysports.com prolific sports author Harvey Frommer has the following to say about this most attractive volume: "The great glory days for the Celtics may be a thing of the past but Bjarkman's opus reminds us in words and pictures of what once was. From its opening chapter on the Celtic Mystique through The Russell Era all the way into Statistical Appendices - the book is loaded with the kind of information basketball fans (and especially Celtics fans) will savor. Bjarkman has published more than 35 books and this is one of his best focusing as it does in great depth on the NBA's most storied franchise. We are there through many magic moments, with memorable journeymen as well as major stars. A celebration and an archive, "The Boston Celtics Encyclopedia" belongs in a place of prominence on your basketball bookself."

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great info for Celtic-Nation.com, October 23, 2003

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Ricky Mitchell (marmet, WV United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Boston Celtics Encyclopedia (Hardcover)

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!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I still can't believe that which I saw for myself ...., November 18, 2006

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G. E. Mantel "RCM-Maki" (Mesabi Iron Range) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Boston Celtics Encyclopedia (Paperback)

... 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.