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Michael Jordan: The early years.


Michael Jordan was one of five children born to James and Delores Jordan.
He was born February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn. The Jordans' felt that the streets
of Brooklyn were unsafe to raise a young family of five children. Instead of
trying to endure the streets of Brooklyn, the Jordan family moved to Wilmington,
North Carolina. James got a job in Wilmington as a mechanic and Delores got a
job as a teller at United Carolina Bank. The Jordan's always stressed the value
of manners to their children. The above examples typified Michael Jordan's
early years.

Michael's first love.

Michael always had an eye for baseball. He played as an outfielder and
as a pitcher. When he was twelve, he was the top player in his league. Michael
had his picture placed in the Morning Star, which is Wilmington's newspaper. By
the age of fifteen, he wasn't the star in baseball he once was. He was still
very good, but he had lost some of his focus. Later, in his......

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