Reviews

From The Wall Street Journal Skillful writers like Mr. O'Brien know how to find the tributaries where rich, untold material lies waiting to be excavated. Larry Bird playing for the Indiana State Sycamores against the Michigan State Spartans in the NCAA basketball championship on March 26, 1979. Sports Illustrated via Getty Images. More than three decades after his final game—a pain-wracked cameo in the United States’s gold-medal win over Croatia in the 1992 Olympics—Larry Bir