An archival photo shows the Brookline High team led into the 1963 playoffs by Don Slaven. Brookline High’s famed 1963 basketball team reunites with coach Don Slaven
An archival photo shows the Brookline High team led into the 1963 playoffs by Don Slaven. By Marvin Pave
Globe Correspondent /
August 11, 2012
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A former Special Olympics director for Cape Cod and the Islands, Slaven has also produced a CD of music composed by his father, John Slaven Sr., from the 1940s and ’50s.
“I broke open a locked piano seat and found the torn manuscripts,’’ said Slaven, an Army teammate of the great Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford. “Two of the songs were patriotic and the rest were love songs to my mother.’’
It is that side of Don Slaven, his players said, that transcends the wins, and the losses.
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