Did people follow pro sports religiously like people do today?
Oh yeah, oh yeah, there’s no doubt about it. You know, the Bruins, the Celtics, and the Red Sox were as popular during that era as they are now. Were there certain professional basketball superstars who you tried to emulate when you were playing? I think that a lot of the kids at the Wayland High School wanted to follow the Celtic winning tradition, and the team tradition. So there wasn’t as much emphasis placed on the individual? No, not on the individual. One of the things that I recognized was that through all of the winning seasons that the Celtics ever had, all the winning tradition, they never had a scoring champion. They never had a person who led the league in scoring, which is phenomenal when you think about all the winning seasons that they had. And we kind of fell into that same feeling that we were a team. We played as a team. And the team concept surpassed any individual accomplishments. What kind of town was Wayland like? Was it similar to today?It was much smaller, obvio
