I think the word hero should not be used in sports. There are hero's who are athletes, Roberto Clemente, Joe Delaney and such. Hero's run into burning buildings, they work 3 jobs to provide for there families, they die to protect our freedom. The ordanary finding it in themselves to be extrordanary. With that being said, I am going to contradict myself. Kirby was my hero. I can't exactly explain why, maybe because he never disrespect us, by disrespecting the game, and the joy that he played with. Kirby is my favorite player in any sport,and always will be. I feel very lucky he played in my hometown, only wish we had an old Kirby around, to here what he would have to say.