Boys' Life, May 1st, 2002
NEW YORK YANKEES SUPERSTAR BERNIE WILLIAMS MAKES SWEET MUSIC ON AND OFF THE FIELD. New York Yankees center fielder Bernie Williams understands the! importance of being well-rrounded. By age 8, Williams could play Puerto Rican folk songs on the guitar. Later he was trained in classical guitar. At 17, he had excelled in baseball and was signed by the Yankees. He also enrolled in college and considered becoming a doctor. "Probably all of it came from my parents' influence," Williams says. "My dad and my mom wanted me to stay off the streets and they enrolled me in a whole bunch of 'extracurri...
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