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Article: Sting's Granitza marking meaningful Thanksgiving
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 27, 1986
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Unlike the rest of us, professional athletes die twice. The
first time comes usually in their 30s, when their bosses tell them
they are washed up, over the hill, not worth what they are being
paid. It is a mortal wounding of the pride.
Karl-Heinz Granitza has just gone through that. He can smile
about it now, say he is relaxed and looking forward to tomorrow
night's Sting home opener against Wichita in a new home, the Rosemont
Horizon. But he lives with the fresh memory of "a very, very tough
time" in the months since his soccer team's last season.
In a smaller way, Granitza has been the Stan Mikita or even the
Ernie Banks of a sport less appreciated than theirs in Chicago.
He has ...