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Three strokes have cut down his lifestyle, as well as most of his vision, and a broken hip from a December fall is causing more problems. Ted Williams rides in a wheelchair now. (On this spring training day) he has just returned this morning from a heart test. Another doctor is calling for a blood test. The Kid is 78, as his body keeps reminding, but there’s a bat in the conversation now and so for a few minutes everything else fades away–the years, the aches, even the live-in aide talking about physical therapy to be done.