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Wayne Gretzky was 13 years old, coach Ron St. Amand already had
an idea to help his star player's hockey career.  "I remember
him saying to Wayne, 'We've got to beef you up to get bigger to
go on and play this as a career,'" Ron's son Rick St. Amand
recalls. "Wayne actually came and worked at our printing
company, sweeping floors and emptying garbage pails and doing
that kind of stuff."  Even then Gretzky was no ordinary 13-year-
old and his hockey career was already the subject of media
attention. That will happen when a kid scores 378 goals in a
season.  Walter Gretzky started keeping track of his son's
stats, so by the spring of 1974 Brantford, Ont., was abuzz about
the prodigy's 1,000th lifetime goal. When he scored it in a
late-season exhibition game, Gretzky signed his stick and gave
it to Ron St. Amand and it remained in the