NEWPORT NEWS — Hank Foiles is 94 years old, an age few of us will ever see, and if we do, we expect to be frail and perhaps confined to a wheelchair.
But when you shake his hand, your fingers ache under the weight of his vise-like grip. And when you ask him to flex his muscle, you realize his biceps are stronger than yours.
His voice is still strong, and his memory is still sharp. Occasionally, he repeats the same story in the two hours while you are with him, but you are amazed at the details he recalls from his childhood in the 1930s.
Perhaps that was to be expected of one of the greatest athletes ever to grace the football and baseball fields of Hampton Roads.