SI Vault The Ripples from Little Lake Nellie Gary Smith July 12,
1993 Four months after Cleveland Indian pitchers Tim Crews and
Steve Olin died in a boating accident, their families and
friends are coming to grips with the grief that still washes
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July 12, 1993  The Ripples From Little Lake Nellie   View
CoverRead All Articles View This Issue  Were this story a movie,
it would open with a scene 20 years from today. Patti and Grover
and Wick and Laurie and Bobby would be sitting around a fire
near the cypress trees on the bank of the little lake in
Clermont, Fla. They'd all be graying and wrinkled by then.
They'd all have angle and distance on what occurred that night
at the dock. In the campfire glow you would barely make out
Bobby's scar, the one that loops across his forehead like the
seams of a baseball. Laurie would be trying to explain what it
was like sleeping for months in the same bed with three little
bodies. Patti and Wick would be getti