Bird Watching, Larry Bird
Bird Watching, Larry Bird
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Bird Watching
On Playing and Coaching the Game I Love

Author: Larry Bird, Jackie MacMullan

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Unabridged: 9 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/19/2014

Synopsis

Even if you thought you knew everything about basketball legend Larry Bird, this book is full of surprises. Bird speaks with amazing candor, offering a personal and honest look at his career with the Celtics, his experience with the '92 Olympics Dream Team, and his transition from superstar player to respected coach. Bird offers striking revelations about his health problems and how they shaped the man and his game. He shows how the things he learned as a player formed his thinking as a coach. He also shares his insight into the Pacer's disastrous 1999 playoff loss. Fans will be thrilled with the game talk, intimate anecdotes, and reminiscences with which Bird colors his stirring story. Overall, this is a compelling self-portrait of an uncomplicated man of humble beginnings who has achieved a great deal through hard work and integrity. Narrator Tom Stechschulte lends a strong, rich voice to Bird's revealing memoir. His perfectly paced delivery enhances the sense of play-by-play action and the feeling that the Bird Man himself is telling you his personal story.

About Larry Bird

Larry Bird played thirteen seasons with the Boston Celtics and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1998. He was head coach of the Indiana Pacers from 1997 to 2000 and currently serves as their President of Basketball Operations.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paxton on July 29, 2020

One of my favorite basketball players reflecting back on his career and talking about coaching in the NBA. Great book. Lots of insights. Bought off the shelf the year it was released. Update 2020: Re-Read this. Still holds up. I enjoy reading Bird’s thoughts on basketball, the League, and now coachin......more

Goodreads review by Adam on June 11, 2023

B+ Bird Watching: On Playing and Coaching the Game I Love was written before Larry Bird's third season as the coach of the Indiana Pacers. Bird explores some of his career as a player in the NBA but focuses more on his coaching career and basketball fundamentals. Bird Watching is more personal than......more

Goodreads review by Gboyer on December 09, 2014

Bird Watching The book I read was Bird Watching, written by Larry Bird with Jackie MacMullan. The book is about how Larry Bird played and coached the game he loved. The theme of this book is unfailing determination. Larry Bird said,”I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow th......more

Goodreads review by Kurt on December 01, 2017

A good book about Larry Bird. Written in his words, mainly about the end of his playing career and the post playing days. Not as engaging as the Dr J or Michael Jordan books. It does seem when reading it that Larry feels misunderstood by a lot of his peers but you can also see by what he says that a......more

Goodreads review by Michael on March 23, 2022

My largest problem with this book was that I listened to the audiobook, which was not read by Mr. Bird, and while the reader wasn’t bad, it wasn’t Larry. Whereas had I read the book, my mind could have better heard the words in Larry’s voice. Anytime Larry Bird wants to talk about Basketball I am up......more

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