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Red’s Suited for the Celtics
Date: 1960s
The nattily dressed Celtics surrounded Head Coach Red Auerbach while he was fitted for a suit jacket. Auerbach knew something about suits. While growing up as a teenager in Brooklyn, his father ran a dry-cleaning company. Auerbach worked twelve-hour days pressing suits, which he estimated totaled over 100 suits per day! He used that experience to help his team look sharp.
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