Jack Berry never did learn how to swim. He liked to refer to himself as the world’s No. 1 aquaphobe. The fear dated back to his Boy Scout days, when he fell into the Middle Rouge River.
That fear, though, never kept him from the golf course, where he made his mark … and, yes, some big numbers, too.
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“My ball,” he once quipped in his 80s, “had an instinct for water.”
Berry, a member of the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame who was a sports writer in Detroit for decades, including long stints at both the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News,
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