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| September 29, 2001 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Post and Courier. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: KEN BURGER

Looking back at Mooney the motivator

Every now and then I see Mooney Player. His granddaughters, English and Lauren Burton, live next door to me and he visits them and his beach house at Isle of Palms regularly.

Nearing 70, he's still as fit as when he was a high school football coach in Columbia, displaying the same wit and charm that made him such an enigma then and now.

Some of you probably never heard of Mooney Player. But let me tell you about him. Because he's one of the most interesting men I ever met. And had the dominoes of history tumbled differently, he might have been the man who changed the course of South …

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