When March Went Mad: the game that transformed basketball A4

Name: Ryan Hull
Class: A4
Book: When March Went Mad: the game that transformed basketball
Author: Seth Davis
Pages: 307
Rating: *****

Recommendation: This is a good book for anyone who likes basketball and wants to know more about how the game became more popular. It is also a good book for anyone who wants to know more about Larry Bird or Magic Johnson and how they rose to be two of the greatest players to every play the sport.

Summary: This Book tells about the 1979 NCAA Championship game which featured Larry bird and the Indiana State Sycamores versus Magic Johnson and the Michigan State Spartans. It focuses on those two players throughout the book. The majority of the book goes back and forth between the stories of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and how they came to be the players that they are. It takes you in depth on the environments that they grew up in and goes back to their high school teams. It then leads you on into how they came to choose the universities that they went to, and their careers in college up until the 1979 season. Then it takes a look at how each team made it to the championship game. The book even gives a look at their individual careers in the NBA and tells how they changed the way America looked at the game of basketball and how they made it a more relevant and exciting sport.

Explanation of Rating: It was a very enjoyable book that gave a lot of detail. Almost anyone who enjoys basketball or sports would have a good time reading it. It doesn't waste time with pointless information or anything like that. It gives a very good look at both Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, and you find out things about them that most people wouldn't know unless they did more research or read this book. The only thing that you could say negatively about the book is the fact that you might not enjoy it as much if you are sensitive to swearing or language. Even that though is things from the players that gives you insight to how they lived their lives and how they handled themselves around people. It is an all around good book to read.

Favorite Passage: " "I have some good memories," he says. "I have some that aren't so good, but that's what life is, When you play a team game, you lose some, you win some, and you better be willing to accept bot with humility." "

I like that passage because it pretty much sums up how anything in life is, you have good things and bad things happen to you and you have to be able to accept both and deal with them in the best way that you can.