Fans of Hall of Fame Boston Celtics forward Larry Bird would most likely not be too shocked to learn he played college baseball on an attempt, yet the Hick From French Lick offered the sport the actual old college shot while at Indiana University. A regular visitor to the school’s athletic healing center, Bird would get ribbed by Indiana baseball head coach Bob Warn, and one day Bird had actually had enough of Warn’s jokes after the coach said to him that “real men play with balls this size” per SB Nation’s James Dator.
“I could do that. I could play baseball,” recommended the Terra Haute native — and Warn took him up on his deal, having him dress for a non-conference video game vs. Western Kentucky. “He plays the game (of baseball) just as he does basketball, with every ounce he has,” stated Warn of Bird’s one-game college baseball profession.
“He’s very intense,” included Warn. “He was remarking to one of the players before the game that he just wanted to do well; he didn’t want to let the team down.”
Going 1-of-2 with 2 RBIs with 9 putouts from very first base to his (really quick) record recommends that Larry Legend effectively might have been a multi-sport professional athlete had he genuinely wished to.
Not that Celtics fans would have desired a 2nd less of him than he had on their parquet, anyhow.
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