Author: Jackie MacMullan
Excerpt from book:
...this book talks of two of the greatest basketball players of all-time, Larry Bird and Magic Johnson and their journey to super-stardom. Larry was born and raised in French Lick, Indiana and it was a small and generally low-income area. "I thought you were going to be the first one to graduate college. This was a great opportunity for you. Don't you understand? I'm so disappointed." (MacMullan, 14) This is what Larry's mother Georgia told her son after he was forced to drop out of Indiana University. He said to himself "I'm hurt, I can't work, I'm going to be in trouble for being late to class, I don't have any money, and they won't let me play in any of the games." (MacMullan, 14) So the book represents the quotation by Flavia Weedn in that if your dream falls apart, pick yourself up and continue to persevere. That's exactly what Larry Bird did as he made it to the NBA 3 years later and eventually went down as one of the greatest to ever play the game. This also relates to the poem "See it Through", as it talks about how you should never run away from your problems and no matter what you do don't give up. Larry Bird had a choice to make and he could have left basketball for good and given up, but he didn't as he kept fighting and became a Hall of Fame caliber player..
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