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Biography of Larry BirdName: Larry BirdBirth Date: December 7, 1956 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: West Baden, Indiana, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: athlete, basketball player, basketball coach Larry Bird No player has left a mark on 1980s professional basketball comparable to that of Larry Bird (born 1956), the renowned forward for the Boston Celtics.Bird took the NBA by storm as a rookie in 1979 and dominated the league almost without a break throughout his career as a professional basket ball player. He transformed the lackluster Celtics into a basketball superpower, leading the team to three national championships in five attempts. Every sort of honor and superlative has been lavished on the blond Indiana native. Sports Illustrated contributor Frank Deford has called him "the greatest basketball player in the history of humankind," and few observers would argue the point. "Each Bird game is a rich tapestry of fundamentals," writes Mike Lupica in the New York Daily News. "He keeps the ball alive, he is the middleman on the fast break, he boxes out, he posts his man every chance he gets. …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…passed West Germany to become the world's second strongest economic power1972: President Nixon signed bill authorizing development of space shuttle craft1976: Pan Am began non-stop New York to Tokyo service1980: Transit strike shut down New York City subways for 11 days1984: AT&T divested itself of its 22 Bell operating companies according to court order1988: Top non-fiction books: Battle Cry of Freedom, by James McPherson; Parting of the Waters: America in the King Years, by Taylor Branch; and A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam, by Neil Sheehan1992: Top Hollywood musical was Disney's Aladdin Further Reading booksHeinsohn, Tommy, Give 'em the Hook, Prentice Hall, 1989.Levine, Lee Daniel, Bird: The Making of an American Sports Legend, McGraw-Hill, 1989.periodicalsDaily News, March 17, 1979; January 30, 1981.Newsweek, February 26, 1979.New Yorker, March 24, 1986.New York Times, February 3, 1979. Sports Illustrated, January 23, 1978; February 5, 1979; April 2, 1979; October 15, 1979; November 9, 1981; March 21, 1988; December 11, 1989.Time, February 26, 1979; June 9, 1986.USA Today, July 1, 2002.Washington Post, February 9, 1979. |