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Article: O'Quinn took impossible path.(PASSINGS)
- Article from:
- Arkansas Business
- Article date:
- August 4, 2008
- Author:
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THERE WERE LOTS OF IMPOSSIBLE dreams for Arkansans in the late 1930s. None was more impossible than that of a grammar school kid at Malvern named Mickey O'Quinn. He had dreamed of being a high school and college football star--all that was crushed when he became a victim of polio.
The disease settled in one of his legs only. The leg grew--but his foot didn't. The rest of his life he had to buy two pairs of shoes, one to fit one foot and one to fit the other.
Mickey O'Quinn grew up into a massive young man. And he decided to see if the impossible dream could be made to come true, laboring as center for the Malvern Leopards.
His football career ...
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