Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...virility with his fists because he found no glory on the playing field: he tried football, basketball and baseball and was lackluster at each. He finally turned to a sport that required no special physical talent, just brains, determination and nerve. Ted Turner soon became known as the Capsize Kid, a fanatic sailor. He took crazy chances and rarely won, but he loved the competitive frenzy...
...during birth. "I wanted to take a knife and cut the skin right off me," she says. "I was just so scared about my baby." A healthy girl was born, and for six months Susan was "hysterical" about protecting the youngster, now 3½. "She is probably the most paranoid kid on the block," says Susan, because of elaborate warnings and precautions. Susan douses the house with quarts of Lysol when friends come over, and admits to "enormous" sexual problems with her husband, who caught herpes from...
...year from the day I retired to the day I died. Figure 30 years: that's $7 million. But the Braves weren't contenders then." Now he gets $1.5 million a year for, as he says, "doing nothing different than I did as a kid, only in a slightly better uniform with a few more people watching." He smiles and says, "Remember when I used to say I wanted to be the first $ 100,000 singles hitter? Well, there wasn't really a dollar figure on it. I just wanted to prove all that hustle and determination...
...Education. "When I was a kid I'd go around with my father, and once I met this guy behind a bar room called the Pepper Pot, sittin' on a log, smokin' a joint or somethin', just relaxing. I was a little kid coming to bother him, and he just took time to tell me things about music. I didn't even know it was Professor Longhair...
...young father he takes his son, then eight or nine, to a crossroads tavern after a morning foray against the smallmouth bass of Wisconsin. The kid stuffs his face and observes: "Gee, Dad, this is the life, isn't it? Fishing and eating in saloons." A quarter of a century later he takes another tyke fishing, this time on Martha's Vineyard. "Grandpa," the boy asks, "did you grow old or were you made old?" These volumes provide the answer. He grew old gracefully and, like every other superstar, made everyone who watched him feel young...