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Listed height: 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) Listed weight: 215 lb (98 kg) [1] ... Bill Bradley wrote for The New York Times Book Review that "Bill Russell is a private, ...
William Ellis Russell (born October 21, 1948) is an American former shortstop, coach and manager in Major League Baseball. Russell played his entire 18-year, 2,181-game career with the Los Angeles Dodgers as the starting shortstop for four National League pennant winners and one World Series championship team.
Listed height: 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) Listed weight: 218 lb (99 kg) Career information; High school: ... following Bill Russell's retirement as both player and coach.
A Hall of Famer, five-time Most Valuable Player and 12-time All-Star, Russell in 1980 was voted the greatest player in NBA history by basketball writers. Bill Russell, NBA Great And Celtics Legend ...
Russell’s Celtics were 85-57 against Wilt; in eight playoff series against Chamberlain, Russell lost only once. Russell retired in 1969, serving the last three seasons as Boston’s player-coach.
Russell was unapologetically Black, forward thinking and operated under no delusions about where he played or the country he lived in.
In 1964, these five players became the first African-American starting five in the NBA. When Auerbach gave up coaching to become the Celtics general manager in 1966, he appointed Bill Russell as his successor. Russell became the first black NBA coach and was the first black coach of a professional sports organization since Fritz Pollard in 1925 ...
The man, and the athlete, stood tall. He was dangerous, “woke” – daring anyone to challenge his consciousness, his boots-on-the-ground stripes or his authenticity. ... Bill Russell talks at ...