PREVIEW: Keith O’Brien delivers authentic Larry Bird story in ‘Heartland’

Before the championships. Before the mythology. Before Larry Bird became “Larry Legend,” he was a kid from French Lick, Indiana, hauling trash and wondering where his life had gone wrong. That’s the story author Keith O’Brien tells in “Heartland: A Forgotten Place, an Impossible Dream, and the Miracle of Larry Bird,” set for release March 3 (or 3/3, a nod to Bird’s retired jersey number). The New York Times bestselling author of...