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A.J. Foyt returns to the Indy 500, his legacy long secured and grief fresh from his wife’s death - West Hawaii Today

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A.J. Foyt was 15 when a boat he was riding in capsized in a storm. He was retired when he suffered two near-fatal attacks by killer bees. He has had several staph infections, one leading to a concrete spacer in his leg. His high school sweetheart had seen him defy death so many times.

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A.J. Foyt returns to the Indy 500, his legacy long secured and grief fresh from his wife’s death - West Hawaii Today

WALLER, Texas — A.J. Foyt was 15 when a boat that he and two friends were riding in capsized in a storm. The young Foyt clung tightly to a buoy until a fishing vessel found him, too late for one of the other boys that had already drowned.

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