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This "part memoir, part sports story" (Wall Street Journal) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Big Bam chronicles the clash of NBA titans over seven riveting games—Celtics versus Lakers, Russell versus Chamberlain—covered by one young reporter. Welcome to the 1969 NBA Finals!
They don’t set up any better than this. The greatest basketball player of all time–Bill Russell–and his juggernaut Boston Celtics, winners of ten (ten!) of the previous twelve NBA championships, squeak through one more playoff run and land in the Finals again. Russell’s opponent? The fearsome 7’1” next-generation superstar, Wilt Chamberlain, recently traded to the LA Lakers to form the league’s first dream team. Bill Russell and John Havlicek versus Chamberlain, Jerry West and Elgin Baylor. The 1969 Celtics are at the end of their dominance. The 1969 Lakers are unstoppable.
Add to the mix one newly minted reporter. Covering the epic series is a wide-eyed young sports writer named Leigh Montville. Years before becoming an award-winning legend himself at The Boston Globe and Sports Illustrated, twenty-four-year-old Montville is ordered by his editor at the Globe to get on a plane to L.A. (first time!) to write about his luminous heroes, the biggest of big men.
What follows is a raucous, colorful, joyous account of one of the greatest seven-game series in NBA history. Set against a backdrop of the late sixties, Montville’s reporting and recollections transport readers to a singular time–with rampant racial tension on the streets and on the court, with the emergence of a still relatively small league on its way to becoming a billion-dollar industry, and to an era when newspaper journalism and the written word served as the crucial lifeline between sports and sports fans. And there was basketball–seven breathtaking, see-saw games, highlight-reel moments from an unprecedented cast of future Hall of Famers (including player-coach Russell as the first-ever black head coach in the NBA), coast-to-coast travels and the clack-clack-clack of typewriter keys racing against tight deadlines.
Tall Men, Short Shorts is a masterpiece of sports journalism with a charming touch of personal memoir. Leigh Montville has crafted his most entertaining book yet, richly enshrining luminous players and moments in a unique American time.
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Named a Best Book of the Year by The Los Angeles Times and FanSided
“Montville’s chronicle–both reported and reflective–is part memoir, part sports story.... Montville takes us through all seven games in a pastiche of newspaper stories, radio accounts and his own reminiscences. It is all remarkably engaging.... A classic.” (The Wall Street Journal)
“The definitive account of a pivotal season in one of sports’ great rivalries, supplemented by the personal, often hilarious, memories of a generational observer of sports.” (The Los Angeles Times)
“[A] wonderfully told story of a young Montville covering the 1969 Bill Russell vs. Wilt Chamberlain, Celtics vs. Lakers NBA Finals. It’s great storytelling (a Montville staple) and pure fun. Montville brings Boston’s 1969 Boys of Spring to life in spectacular fashion. Take it to the beach. Thank me later.” (The Boston Globe)
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In the history of modern sport, there have never been two high-level teammates who loathed each other the way Shaquille O’Neal loathed Kobe Bryant and Kobe Bryant loathed Shaquille O’Neal. From public sniping and sparring, to physical altercations and the repeated threats of trade, it was warfare. And yet, despite eight years of infighting and hostility, by turns mediated and encouraged by coach Phil Jackson, the Shaq-Kobe duo resulted in one of the greatest dynasties in NBA history.
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Ok I've finished it and have more thoughts
- De Bobby S en 09-24-20
De: Jeff Pearlman
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Barkley
- A Biography
- De: Timothy Bella
- Narrado por: Korey Jackson
- Duración: 16 h y 46 m
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He's one of the most interesting American athletes in the past fifty years. Passionate, candid, iconoclastic, and gifted both on and off the court, Charles Barkley has made a lasting impact on not only the world of basketball but pop culture at large. Yet few people know the real Charles. Informed by over 370 original interviews and painstaking research, Timothy Bella's Barkley is the most comprehensive biography to date of one of the most talked about icons in the world of sports.
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Great insight to the big man’s life.
- De marci rodee en 07-03-23
De: Timothy Bella
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Golden Days
- West's Lakers, Steph's Warriors, and the California Dreamers Who Reinvented Basketball
- De: Jack McCallum
- Narrado por: Jack McCallum
- Duración: 11 h y 47 m
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In Golden Days, acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum uses these two teams - the Jerry West/Wilt Chamberlain/Elgin Baylor Lakers and the Stephen Curry/Kevin Durant/Draymond Green Warriors - to trace the dynamic history of the National Basketball Association, which for much of the last half century has marched memorably through the state of California. Tying together the two strands of McCallum's story is Hall of Famer West, the ferociously competitive Laker guard who later became one of the key architects of the Warriors.
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Very interesting and fun to read
- De Joe en 06-12-18
De: Jack McCallum
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You Can't Make This Up
- Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television
- De: Al Michaels, L. Jon Wertheim
- Narrado por: Al Michaels, Ray Porter
- Duración: 9 h y 55 m
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In this highly entertaining and insightful memoir, one of television’s most respected broadcasters interweaves the story of his life and career with lively firsthand tales of some of the most thrilling events and fascinating figures in modern sports.
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Great, everything I hoped for, but...
- De Shortfellow en 11-30-14
De: Al Michaels, y otros
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It's Better to Be Feared
- The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness
- De: Seth Wickersham
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 19 h y 21 m
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Over two unbelievable decades, the New England Patriots were not only the NFL's most dominant team, but also - and by far - the most secretive. How did they achieve and sustain greatness - and what were the costs? In It's Better to Be Feared, Seth Wickersham, one of the country's finest long form and investigative sportswriters, tells the full, behind-the-scenes story of the Patriots, capturing the brilliance, ambition, and vanity that powered and ultimately unraveled them.
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Don’t bother if you’ve read other patriots books
- De Brandon O. en 10-14-21
De: Seth Wickersham
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Play by Play
- Calling the Wildest Games in Sports - From SEC Football to College Basketball, the Masters and More
- De: Verne Lundquist
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner, Verne Lundquist
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
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Verne Lundquist's remarkable broadcasting career has placed him at the center of major sporting events in America for more than 50 years, from Jack Nicklaus' final victory at the 1986 Masters to Tonya Harding's attack on Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 Olympics to the Auburn-Alabama shocker of 2013. In his first memoir, he replays highlights from his career, taking sports fans behind the scenes of some of the most dramatic moments in modern sports history.
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Voice
- De Derek en 06-05-23
De: Verne Lundquist
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Tanking to the Top
- The Philadelphia 76ers and the Most Audacious Process in the History of Professional Sports
- De: Yaron Weitzman
- Narrado por: Yaron Weitzman
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
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When a group of private equity bigwigs purchased the Philadelphia 76ers in 2011, the team was both bad and boring. Attendance was down. So were ratings. The Sixers had an aging coach, an antiquated front office, and a group of players that could best be described as mediocre. Enter Sam Hinkie - a man with a plan straight out of the PE playbook, one that violated professional sports' Golden Rule: You play to win the game.
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Great history of tanking by Sixers
- De Alan Bernstein en 03-11-23
De: Yaron Weitzman
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Showtime
- Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s
- De: Jeff Pearlman
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 18 h y 36 m
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Best-selling sportswriter Jeff Pearlman draws from almost 300 interviews to take the first full measure of the Lakers’ epic Showtime era. A dazzling account of one of America’s greatest sports sagas, Showtime is packed with indelible characters, vicious rivalries, and jaw-dropping, behind-the-scenes stories of the players’ decadent Hollywood lifestyles. From the Showtime era’s remarkable rise to its tragic end - marked by Magic Johnson’s 1991 announcement that he had contracted HIV - Showtime is a gripping narrative of sports, celebrity, and 1980s-style excess.
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Offended at the style used to voice black characters.
- De NP en 01-15-22
De: Jeff Pearlman
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A Season in the Sun
- The Inside Story of Bruce Arians, Tom Brady, and the Making of a Champion
- De: Lars Anderson
- Narrado por: Roger Wayne
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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The extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of how Coach Bruce Arians, Tom Brady, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers came together to deliver one of the most improbable Super Bowl victories in NFL history.
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Forever Tom Brady
- De Michael G. Salardino en 12-26-21
De: Lars Anderson
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Badasses
- The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders
- De: Peter Richmond
- Narrado por: Barry Abrams
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
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A book that explores the enduring legends of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders, Badasses is the definitive biography of arguably the last team to play old-fashioned tough-guy football. Peter Richmond, co-author of the New York Times best seller The Glory Game, offers a fascinating look at the 1970s Oakland Raiders, led by colorful greats from another era.
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Silver and Black
- De Kevin en 03-11-23
De: Peter Richmond
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Dream Team
- How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
- De: Jack McCallum
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 12 h y 56 m
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In Dream Team, acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic men's basketball team that captivated the world, kindled the hoop dreams of countless children around the planet, and remade the NBA into a global sensation. As a senior staff writer for Sports Illustrated, McCallum enjoyed a courtside seat for the most exciting basketball spectacle on earth, covering the Dream Team from its inception to the gold medal ceremony in Barcelona.
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Great insight into the great basketball team ever.
- De James O'Brien en 09-04-12
De: Jack McCallum
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The Legends Club
- Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Jim Valvano, and an Epic College Basketball Rivalry
- De: John Feinstein
- Narrado por: John Feinstein
- Duración: 15 h y 18 m
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The riveting inside story of college basketball's fiercest rivalry among three coaching legends - University of North Carolina's Dean Smith, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski, and North Carolina State's Jim Valvano - by the king of college basketball writers, number-one New York Times best seller John Feinstein.
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An absolute must for college basketball fans
- De Hebern en 12-12-18
De: John Feinstein
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Furious George
- My Forty Years Surviving NBA Divas, Clueless GMs, and Poor Shot Selection
- De: George Karl, Curt Sampson
- Narrado por: Danny Campbell
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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A man of deep passion and intensity, George Karl earned his bad boy reputation while playing at the University of North Carolina, a rap that continued through the five years he spent with the San Antonio Spurs - and long after he stopped playing. Karl's beery nights, fistfights, and barking followed him into a 35-year coaching career. In a game defined by big stakes and bigger egos, rabid fans and an unforgiving media, Karl was hired and fired a dozen times.
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Pathetic little black book.
- De Brad Howard en 04-20-20
De: George Karl, y otros
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The Russian Five
- A Story of Espionage, Defection, Bribery and Courage
- De: Keith Gave
- Narrado por: Bob Brill
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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When the Detroit Red Wings were rebooting their franchise after more than two decades of relative futility, they knew the best place to find world-class players who could turn things around more quickly were conscripted servants behind the Iron Curtain. All they had to do to get them was make history by drafting them and then figure out how to get them out of the Soviet Union.
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Very interesting
- De Kandace en 04-23-21
De: Keith Gave
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From Darkness to Dynasty
- The First 40 Years of the New England Patriots
- De: Jerry Thornton
- Narrado por: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Duración: 13 h y 36 m
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From Darkness to Dynasty tells the unlikely history of the New England Patriots as it has never been told before. From their humble beginnings as a team bought with rainy-day money by a man who had no idea what he was doing, to the fateful season that saw them win their first Super Bowl, Jerry Thornton shares the wild, humiliating, unbelievable, and wonderful stories that comprised the first 40 years of what would ultimately become the most dominant franchise in NFL history.
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great narration, great book
- De BenRias en 01-25-18
De: Jerry Thornton
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Pistol
- The Life of Pete Maravich
- De: Mark Kriegel
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 12 h y 16 m
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Pistol is more than the biography of a ballplayer. It's the stuff of classic novels: the story of a boy transformed by his father's dream and the cost of that dream. Even as Pete Maravich became Pistol Pete, a basketball icon for baby boomers, all the Maraviches paid a price. Now acclaimed author Mark Kriegel has brilliantly captured the saga of an American family: its rise, its apparent ruin, and, finally, its redemption.
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Extremely Good!
- De steve en 12-12-12
De: Mark Kriegel
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Overtime
- Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines at the Crossroads of College Football
- De: John U. Bacon
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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For the past year, John U. Bacon has received unprecedented access to Jim Harbaugh’s University of Michigan football team: coaches, players, and staffers, in closed-door meetings, locker rooms, meals, and classes. Overtime captures this storied program at the crossroads, as the sport’s winningest team battles to reclaim its former glory. But what if the price of success today comes at the cost of your soul? Do you pay it, or compete without compromising?
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Good story.... but
- De Amazon Customer en 10-07-19
De: John U. Bacon
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The story of the 1969 New York Mets’ season has long since entered sports lore as one of the most remarkable of all time. But beyond the “miracle” is a compelling narrative of an unlikely collection of players and the hallowed manager who inspired them to greatness.
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Just Ok
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The Ambassador
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Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's shockingly controversial tenure as ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II.
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Nina Sankovitch’s American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revolution. American Rebels explores how the desire for independence cut across class lines, binding people together as well as dividing them -rebels versus loyalists - as they pursued commonly held goals of opportunity, liberty, and stability. Nina Sankovitch's new audiobook is a fresh history of our revolution that makes listeners look more closely at Massachusetts.
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From acclaimed New York Times Magazine author Michael Sokolove, the astonishing inside story of the epic corruption scandal that has rocked the NCAA and exposed the rot and hypocrisy at the heart of big-time college sports.
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Of the many battlefields on which U.S. troops and intelligence operatives fought in Afghanistan, one remote corner of the country stands as a microcosm of the American campaign: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and Nuristan. The area’s rugged, steep terrain and thick forests made it a natural hiding spot for local insurgents and international terrorists alike, and it came to represent both the valor and futility of America’s two-decade-long Afghan war.
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I was disappointed
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- Narrado por: Dick Cavett
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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Dick Cavett is back, sharing his reflections and reminiscences about Hollywood legends, American cultural icons, and the absurdities of everyday life. In Brief Encounters, the legendary talk show host Dick Cavett introduces us to the fascinating characters who have crossed his path, from James Gandolfini and John Lennon to Mel Brooks and Nora Ephron, enhancing our appreciation of their talent, their personalities, and their places in the pantheon.
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Cavett at his best
- De Harold en 12-10-14
De: Dick Cavett
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The Rebel and the Kingdom
- The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
- De: Bradley Hope
- Narrado por: Lee Osorio
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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In the early 2000s, Adrian Hong was a soft-spoken Yale undergraduate looking for his place in the world. After reading a harrowing account of life inside North Korea, he realized he had found a cause so pressing that he was ready to devote his life to it. Hong journeyed to China, outwitting Chinese security services as he helped ferry asylum-seeking North Korean escapees to safety. The Rebel and the Kingdom is an exhilarating account of a man who turns his back on the status quo—to instead live boldly by his principles.
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Phenomenal true story
- De NYCdogmomma en 11-13-22
De: Bradley Hope
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Canyon Dreams
- A Basketball Season on the Navajo Nation
- De: Michael Powell
- Narrado por: Darrell Dennis
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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Deep in the heart of Northern Arizona, in a small and isolated patch of the vast 17.5 million-acre Navajo reservation, sits Chinle High School. Here, basketball is passion, passed from grandparent to parent to child. Celebrated Times journalist Michael Powell brings us a narrative of triumph and hardship, a moving story about a basketball team on a Navajo reservation that shows how important sports can be to youths in struggling communities, and the transcendent magic and painful realities that confront Native Americans living on reservations.
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Outstanding
- De Denny & Geraldine calhoun en 11-07-23
De: Michael Powell
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Tall Men, Short Shorts
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- Mr. Arthur A. Kinsman
- 07-22-21
A great listen
Being 29 when the series was played I can remember most of what happened but it’s fuzzy. Mr Montville brings it all back to life describing the games , and of course the atmosphere of the time., Including the players , fellow writers, and other characters who I also remember and read but never knew all their backgrounds and idiosyncrasies . All brought to life here with excellent writing . Really a very well done book and the narration by the author makes it even better.
A great read listen and story. .
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- Mark
- 11-18-21
Super interesting basketball book
I really liked so much of this book. The focus is the 1968-69 Boston Celtics season, with a focus on the NBA finals: Boston vs. LA Lakers. The Russell vs. Chamberlain rivalry was fascinating. The author looks back 50 years to his first year as a Boston Globe sports reporter covering the Celtics. I liked the way the author tells the story from his younger eyes. This is filled with profiles of all the big players on those teams, and touches on the issues of racism in Boston and the NBA in that era. This was definitely one of my favorite sports books in recent years. It's about basketball and sports writing. The author reads it adding real authenticity - that was a good choice to have him read. My only complaint is that there was a little too much filler background material, which was likely needed to stretch this out to full book length. That was still somewhat interesting, but kept this a tiny bit short of a 5-star rating to me. If you like basketball or sports in general, there is a lot of good stuff here. If you are a Boston sports fan from that era, this is a must listen. This book made the game, the players, and the time and place come alive through good writing.
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- JIM HOWELL
- 08-14-21
Not quite enough for a full novel…
Thought this would be a timely book to listen to with the NBA Finals going on. It was a story that promised a lot of stars, and a lot of enigmatic people. Those components didn’t disappoint. However, while I thoroughly enjoy Leigh Montville as one of the top writers of SI lore, he just didn’t seem to have quite enough storylines to truly fill a full novel here. Relying on the old story recaps and press clippings just wasn’t enough. And while I give Montville credit for trying with the TBYM angle, it got tired after a while. And I am always desirous of the author voicing their own book, and while Montville even self-effacingly pokes fun at his own voice, he’s right: he doesn’t really have the voice chops to do this. But it was a Catch-22, since I don’t think an average narrator would have known all of the places for inflection. You get what you get.
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- DavidF
- 11-11-22
Montville At His Best
I have read all of Leigh Montville’s books and this is, by far, his best work!
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- Clare Macy
- 11-13-23
Childhood Memories
Fresh angle on writing. Unique story presentations. Strongly recommend. I’m sixty seven years old and only had limited knowledge of basketball at the time.
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- Renee Paul
- 07-27-21
A book for diehard NBA fans
If you love the NBA, especially the Celtics and Lakers this is a great listen!
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- Jeff
- 10-24-23
Great story not only of games but of history
Really relayed the feelings of the times & personalties -- strategy egos courage & challenges of players & coaches - great insight into Bill Russell
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- Hebern
- 12-06-21
Very good book with a caveat
I like Montville’s books. He’s a great sports writer. There was just one thing in this one that kept it from meeting his normally high standards. This book is about the 1969 NBA finals and his experience as a young reporter covering it for a Boston Newspaper. It was so long ago that he considers himself a different person. So he refers to himself in the third person. But even worse he calls the younger version of himself “the bright young man”. To hear that once would be somewhat pretentious and egotistical, but I could quickly move past it. To hear it literally 100s of times if not 1000s is so annoying as to affect the enjoyment of the book. Which is a shame, because the rest of the book is really really good. It’s a Wilt vs. Russell finals. Too many people who talk about the GOAT in basketball today fail to mention those two and it just shows that such conversations are about recent history only. Bill Russell is the greatest winner in the history of basketball and it’s not even close. He won 11 NBA titles, 2 NCAA titles and an Olympic gold medal. Wilt Chamberlain is the greatest individual statistical player in NBA history. For his career he averaged 30 points, 23 rebounds and 4.4 assists a game. No one comes close to those numbers. It’s a really good book that tells the tale of those two and others if you can stand hearing about “the bright young man”.
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