Fans of Hall of Fame Boston Celtics forward Larry Bird would probably not be too surprised to learn he played college baseball on a dare, yet the Hick From French Lick gave the sport the literal old college try while at Indiana University. A frequent visitor to the school’s athletic recovery facility, Bird would get ribbed by Indiana baseball head coach Bob Warn, and one day Bird had 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.
