Joe Lapchick
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Joseph Bohomiel Lapchick was an American professional basketball player, mostly known for playing with the Original Celtics in the 1920s and 1930s. He is commonly regarded as the best center of his er
Lapchick in his first Celtic uniform
Joe Lapchick's misspelled 1933 Goudey Sport Kings basketball card.
The grave of Joe Lapchick in Oakland Cemetery in Yonkers, NY
Original Celtics
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The Original Celtics were a barnstorming professional American basketball team whose overall franchise history is considered to be very complex due to them operating throughout their overall existence
Joe Lapchick
…Joseph Bohomiel Lapchick (April 12, 1900 – August 10, 1970) was an American professional basketball player, mostly known for playing with the Original Celtics in the 1920s and 1930s. He is commonly regarded as the best center of his era, overshadowed (if anything) in his later years only by Tarzan Cooper…
Nat Holman as displayed upon a Goudey "Sport Kings Gum" trading card. (Both Joe Lapchick (spelled as Joe Lopchick) and Eddie Burke had similar player cards displayed as well for the Original Celtics, with one other Hall of Fame worthy basketball player from an earlier era of the sport named Ed Wachter joining them in the same set that Holman appeared in.)