As a teenager, Larry Bird paid no attention to Basketball. It happens that one day he was visiting his aunt's home in Hobart Indiana. Some neighborhood kids asked him to play a game. Without practice he was a natural for the game and then decided to follow through and work at being a great basketball player.
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He played very briefly at the University of Indiana before he transferred to Indiana State, who he led to the Championship game in 1979.
While Larry Bird may have been a fan of other sports, most biographies about him say that he gravitated towards basketball as a kid, and continued to focus entirely on basketball throughout his athletic career-- in high school, college, and the NBA. There have been a few basketball players who tried to play other sports (for example, Michael Jordan tried to become a pro baseball player, but his efforts were unsuccessful); however Larry Bird decided at a young age to make basketball his life, and that is what he did-- first as a player, and then as a coach.
Larry Bird is a person and, at 6'9", he is taller than most ostriches and plays basketball better.
Larry Bird
Larry Bird was a member of the Boston Celtics between 1979-1992.
In history.. I would say Michael Jordan or Larry Bird