The last pass book 






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Missie died in 2013— they were married nearly sixty- three years— but her spirit fills the house. An elegy to Bob Cousy, the Houdini of the Hardwood and a seminal figure in basketball history. This book goes to the heart of the civil rights struggle.
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Many only survived a few steps. Cousy's regret is that of an old man who wishes he had done something different; and he tries now to make up for what he considers to be his failure and inadequacy. That fall he told Parade magazine basketball had replaced baseball as the national pastime. Cooz and Russ fit beautifully together on the court, and the Celtics dynasty was born. As both men approach the end, Cousy seeks to make amends, or at least to acknowledge to his old friend that he regrets not doing more. People treated him with such reverence.
The Last Pass (in Black) - Cousy was a great athlete and a better human being.
Out of the greatest dynasty in American professional sports history, an intimate story of race, mortality, and regret About to turn ninety, Bob Cousy, the Hall of Fame Boston Celtics captain who led the team to its first six championships on an unparalleled run, has much to look back on in contentment. But he has one last the last pass book of unfinished business. The last pass he hopes to throw is to close the circle with his great partner on those Celtic teams, fellow Hall of Famer Bill Russell, now 84. But as the decades passed, Cousy blamed himself for not having done enough, for not having understood the depth of prejudice Russell faced as an African-American star in a city with a fraught history regarding race. Cousy wishes he had defended Russell publicly, and that he had told the last pass book privately that he had his back. At this late hour, he confided to acclaimed historian Gary Pomerantz over the course of many interviews, he would like to make amends. The book is also in a way Bob Cousy's last testament on his complex and fascinating life. As a sports story alone it has few parallels: An poor kid whose immigrant French parents suffered a dysfunctional marriage, the young Cousy escaped to the New York City playgrounds, where he became an urban legend known as the Houdini of the Hardwood. But even as Cousy's on-court imagination and daring brought new attention to the pro game, the Celtics struggled until Coach Red Auerbach landed Russell in 1956. Cooz and Russ fit beautifully together on the court, and the Celtics dynasty was born. To Boston's white sportswriters it was Cousy's team, not Russell's, and as the civil rights movement took flight, and Russell became more publicly involved in it, there were some ugly repercussions in the community, more hurtful to Russell than Cousy feels he understood at the time. It is an enthralling portrait of the heart of this legendary team that throws open a window onto the wider world at a time of wrenching social change. Ultimately it is a book about the legacy of a life: what matters to us in the end, long after the arena lights have been turned off and we are alone with our memories. Download and start listening now. Pomerantz is an author, journalist, and visiting lecturer in the Department of Communication at Stanford. A 1982 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he worked for nearly two decades as a daily journalist, on staff at the Washington Post and Atlanta Journal-Constitution, initially as a sportswriter and then writing columns, editorials, and special projects. He later served as a distinguished visiting professor of journalism at Emory University in Atlanta. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and their three children.