Earl Woods
Earl Dennison Woods died this past Wednesday at age 74.
He ranked high on the list of "People I Wish I Had Known." His long and varied life included two feats of supreme mental strength. In 1951, as a 19-year-old, he integrated college baseball in the Big Seven conference (now better known as the Big 12), playing catcher for Kansas State University. Then, he served two tours of duty in the hellish Vietnam War - as a Green Beret, no less.
In this time when the United States is at war, my utmost respect goes out to all our soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places; even more so, to our most distinguished soldiers, like Earl Woods was.
For further enjoyment, read this gem of an interview that was published in the February 2004 issue of Golf Digest. Earl Woods shares his opinions on everything from collard greens to male menopause. His life in sports spanned from catching Satchel Paige to watching Michelle Wie.
Still, I have one nagging question about Earl Woods' life. Before he married Tiger's mother, Kultida, he had three children - Earl Jr., Kevin, and Royce - in his first marriage. I wonder what those three people (Tiger is 30 years old, so they must be pushing 40) are doing now. How hard it must be to know that Tiger Woods is your half-brother! Even more so when your dad comments that all of you were just a "training family" in preparation for the childhood of the god-king, Tiger.
None of us, though, are without our own sins and faults, and this blemish does not mar the fact of Earl Woods's extraordinary life.
He ranked high on the list of "People I Wish I Had Known." His long and varied life included two feats of supreme mental strength. In 1951, as a 19-year-old, he integrated college baseball in the Big Seven conference (now better known as the Big 12), playing catcher for Kansas State University. Then, he served two tours of duty in the hellish Vietnam War - as a Green Beret, no less.
In this time when the United States is at war, my utmost respect goes out to all our soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places; even more so, to our most distinguished soldiers, like Earl Woods was.
For further enjoyment, read this gem of an interview that was published in the February 2004 issue of Golf Digest. Earl Woods shares his opinions on everything from collard greens to male menopause. His life in sports spanned from catching Satchel Paige to watching Michelle Wie.
Still, I have one nagging question about Earl Woods' life. Before he married Tiger's mother, Kultida, he had three children - Earl Jr., Kevin, and Royce - in his first marriage. I wonder what those three people (Tiger is 30 years old, so they must be pushing 40) are doing now. How hard it must be to know that Tiger Woods is your half-brother! Even more so when your dad comments that all of you were just a "training family" in preparation for the childhood of the god-king, Tiger.
None of us, though, are without our own sins and faults, and this blemish does not mar the fact of Earl Woods's extraordinary life.
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