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The retired numbers project: Number 1 – Walter A. Brown

From now until February 11, Red’s Army will be posting stories about the players behind the Celtics’ 22 retired numbers and that one retired nickname. Stories will be posted in the order that the numbers were retired.

So you think you’re a pretty big Cetics fan? I can assure you, you’re nowhere near as big a fan of the Celtics as Walter Brown was.

The story begins back in 1926 when Tex Rickard, who had built the third Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, decided that what the United States needed was not so much a really good five cent cigar as six more Madison Square Gardens.