| International Standard Book Number |
9781668211700
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| International Standard Book Number |
166821170X
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
796.323/640973
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| Personal Name |
O'Brien, Keith, 1973- author.
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| Title Statement |
Heartland : a forgotten place, an impossible dream, and the miracle of Larry Bird / Keith O'Brien.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Forgotten place, an impossible dream, and the miracle of Larry Bird.
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| Edition Statement |
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Atria Books, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
369 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-349) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
The boy on the boulevard -- The most nowhere place -- The Harry and Larry show -- Cinderella in middle America -- Afterlife.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"In the fall 1974, Larry Bird—one of the greatest players to ever pick up a basketball—was lost, and in danger of slipping away. He had dropped out of Indiana University, spurning legendary Hoosiers head coach Bobby Knight. He returned home to French Lick, a tiny town in the second poorest county in Indiana, and he got a job hauling trash. It could have ended right there for Bird, were it not for two men: Bob King, an old coach with bad knees, and Bill Hodges, a man who knew what it was like to be poor and overlooked. In the spring of 1975, during one of the darkest chapters of Bird’s life, King and Hodges convinced Bird to leave French Lick and play basketball at Indiana State University, a college that couldn’t even fill its arena, much less compete with Bobby Knight. Then, while no one was watching, King and Hodges built a team of players around Bird who were just like him: they were castoffs and leftovers, ready to work. Four years later, in March 1979, this unheralded team would put together one of the greatest seasons in American sports history. By the time it was over, more than 50 million people would tune in to watch the Indiana State Sycamores play in the NCAA finals against Magic Johnson and Michigan State. What happened that night would change college basketball and the NBA. Perhaps more importantly, it would change the members of this hardscrabble team, binding them together forever. In some ways, their one shining moment would never end." --publisher's website.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Bird, Larry, 1956-
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| Subject-Personal Name |
King, Bob, 1923-2004.
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| Subject |
Indiana State University Basketball History.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Basketball players United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Basketball coaches United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Hodges, William Oscar, 1943-
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