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...play this year for a shot at their third consecutive World Championship. But practical concerns were the last thing on Reggie Jackson's mind. Wearing a cotton tennis hat instead of a crash helmet, the A's slugger tore round the Oakland suburb of San Leandro on a motorcycle. As he bolted past a group of astonished friends, Jackson shouted, "I love it!" Then he disappeared back into the traffic. When he finally skidded to a stop, Jackson affectionately patted the borrowed Harley Davidson Sportster and announced, "You sure can raise hell down here...
Jackson loves to raise hell anywhere, any time-in his own style. Leaving rubber on San Leandro's main street is part of his superstar gig, along with collecting old cars and racks of new custom-made clothes. But to Jackson, raising hell means making his presence felt in quiet ways as well as loud. He is accused of insufficient sympathy for fellow blacks; yet he unobtrusively gives away thousands of dollars every year to black, Indian and Mexican-American community groups. He sometimes likes to come on like just another impulsive free-spending jock; actually...
Today, at age six, Leandro is a pianistic sensation who has been applauded wildly from London to Lugano. Just as Rubinstein was taken to Joachim, so young Aconcha was taken to the venerable Rubinstein in 1970 at his vacation villa in Marbella, Spain. "Instead of hanging about the piano like a little monkey," chuckled Rubinstein shortly thereafter, "he ran about the house and hurtled through the garden." When the boy finally sat down to play, "not one note was missing. I was four when I started to play and he was three, but even at the age of eight...
...Leandro has had only one instructor, his father. "I would like to be his teacher all my life but I realize I am dealing with an extraordinary talent," says Roberto. "When the time comes for me to hand him over to a conservatory I will hope to at least maintain my relationship with him as his best friend, as well as his father...
...conservatory will be in Switzerland, but not for a while. Leandro's parents (Mother Dora is a Swiss-born interior decorator) prefer to keep him in the Fuengirola elementary school (where his passion is arithmetic), and limit his concertizing to six weeks a year. The elder Aconchas think the boy needs that much exposure to obtain, says Roberto, "the psychological advantage of being used to an audience." Above all, they want to avoid exhibiting Leandro as a public curiosity. But, says Roberto, "he enjoys playing so much that he regards the concerts as a sort of holiday treat...