Boston’s Danny Ainge recalls how Celtics icon Red Auerbach beat him in racquetball

The three-sport All-American was not, in fact, good at every sport he tried.

Younger fans of the Boston Celtics may not all be aware of the fact that the current Team President Danny Ainge was a player with the franchise with who he won two titles in the mid-1980s.

Fewer still know Ainge was a three-sport All-American, winning national recognition as a high school athlete in his native Oregon playing basketball, football and baseball, the latter of which he also played professionally in college before joining the Celtics in 1981. As adept as the future Celtic was at sports in high school, he would meet his match in another sport in one Red Auerbach, the iconic Boston coach and team president behind the bulk of Boston’s banners.

Ainge was asked if there’s a sport he isn’t good at on a recent episode of the popular New England Sports radio show “Toucher & Rich.”