Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keith O'Brien author of the new biography 'Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird' ...

Many books have been written about Larry Bird. The most recent one, by Keith O’Brien, provides new details and additional context about the basketball legend. Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an ...

Larry Bird averaged an incredible 30 points and 20 rebounds in his senior season at Springs Valley High. Bird's older brother Mark was a major influence on him becoming No. 33, the basketball ...

Larry Bird should have been excited about attending Indiana University in the late summer of 1974. The man who had recruited him to come there, Dave Bliss, had been chasing him for more than a year, ...

New York Times bestselling author Keith O'Brien spent weeks living in Indiana conducting over 200 hours of interviews and tracking down sources who had never spoken publicly about Larry Bird before.