Soft Hands, Gentle Soul

Posted Aug 28, 2007

Art Weiner’s body is slowing down, but his mind is still exceedingly sharp. The large, soft hands that caught end-over-end passes better than any other pair in the country now grip the edges of a walker, but the 80-year-old remembers well, and fondly. “Other coaches thought I was older because of my size, even by the time I was 13 or 14,” laughed Weiner. “I had a very unusual set of experiences in high school, very unusual.” (Inside Carolina)

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