The Brawning Of America

July, 1982

Jacques Strapp, your basic casual athlete, stumbled into the doctor's office one summer day in 1972. The other patients in the waiting room stared as he tried to pick up a copy of Newsweek and found he didn't have the strength. Groaning like an Edsel on its last mile, Jacques collapsed into an orange-vinyl chair.He was a physical impossibility. He had two broken ribs from a pickup rugby game, a wrecking ball for a knee left over from high school football and a torn rotator cuff from pitching pon...

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