Power of Caring
  presented by CIGNA

		March 21, 1988 Senior writer Frank Deford delved into what it was like to be Larry Bird, and what made him what he was. Deford found Bird's off-the-court traits to be as impressive as his NBA success. "Larry epitomizes the word friend," said Tony Clark, a Terre Haute radio executive who grew up with Bird. "Do you understand that? Then you really don't have to know anything else about him." photography by Dick Raphael