Mort Zachter
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Mort Zachter's childhood revolved around a small shop on Manhattan's Lower East Side known in the neighborhood as "the day-old bread store." It was a bakery where nothing was baked, owned by his two eccentric uncles who referred to their goods as "the merchandise." Zachter grew up sleeping in the dinette of a leaking Brooklyn tenement. He lived a classic immigrant story-one of a close-knit, working-class family struggling to make it in America. Only...
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The Definitive Biography of a Coaching Legend.
Hanging high atop the world's most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, is the name "Holzman" and the number "613." That is the total number of wins by former New York Knicks head coach Red Holzman, which is the most in franchise history. While he spent six years as a player and another six as an executive, he's most famous for his time at the helm of the Knickerbockers, where he led the team to their...