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    The Last Folk Hero.   The life and myth of Bo Jackson.   Jeff Pearlman. It is very difficult to be a professional athlete in any one sport.     The odds are considerably reduced when it comes to being a performer in two different sports at the same time.     But it is not impossible and one such athlete by the name of Bo Jackson was able to pull off this unlikely feat in the 1980’s and early 1990’s.   In the book, The Last Folk Hero, the readers will get a complete edification of Bo Jackson the football player, baseball player and person as skillfully researched and told by author Jeff Pearlman.    The talent of Bo Jackson was seemingly limitless.   Blessed with great size, near inhuman strength and speed, he excelled on the gridiron and the baseball diamond.    The book tells the reader how Jackson developed those skills growing up in semi-rural Bessemer, Alabama.     As a kid, left...