Professional Baseball player or a fantastic novelist writer? For John he would have preferred to be the star baseball player however, his life did not turn out the way he had once dreamt about when he was a kid. Instead he grew up to be one of the most well known law novelist. John was born on February 8, 1955 where he started his life in a town called Jonesboro, Arkansas home to also Bill Clinton. As a kid John had always dreamed about being a professional baseball player. However after realizing that maybe he was best off picking an alternative he chose to go to Mississippi State University for Law where he met up with Dr. Zacharias who told the class one day... "If you're sitting out there now with a nice, neat little outline for the next ten years, you'd better be careful. Life may have other plans." …