Prodigy From 4 Years Ago. [A Where-Are-They-Now Installment]

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Permalink Reply by Paul Atreides on December 15, 2012 at 2:36pm

You have to answer some innocuous survey questions to see the whole article.

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Permalink Reply by Tim Prapong on December 15, 2012 at 3:02pm

Ok, sorry I was skimming and didn't see the survey. Yeah, the whole story is pretty sad. Eight junior titles is remarkable. Too bad he got involved with drugs and his mother's suicide must've been extremely damaging to him. The only visual I could find of him. Kinda has that McEnroe look to his hair. 

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Permalink Reply by Paul Atreides on December 15, 2012 at 5:15pm

Eight "National Championship" titles!  Best ever to my knowledge.  BTW, below, I posted a link to that picture just after you posted the picture itself.  I didn't see yours.  If anything, Schoenfield being a few years older, Mac had a Schoenfield look to his hair.  As I mentioned in my post, he already looks a little bit gone in this pic. Not sure if he's imagining his racquet to be a guitar, or a rifle.  If you go to my link below, at the bottom of the page you'll see the same picture and a newspaper clipping (upside down) with a caption that I quoted below describing his game.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Atreides on December 15, 2012 at 3:11pm

I doubt there's any video.  Here's a pic of him from 1980.  Scroll to the bottom.  He would have been about 23.  He looks a little gone already at this point.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1980-Howard-Schoenfield-tennis-favorite-Pre...

 

PS: At the very bottom is a cut out from what looks like a newspaper picture upside down with the caption: "Howard Schoenfield is soooo effortlessly smooth and implacable that when he fires blazing shots from either side it's as shockingly unexpected as Robert Merrill singing Jailhouse Rock." 

I don't know who Robert Merrill is, but, I'm guessing he's a balladeer. 

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