20 Dec Wilmington tennis legend Lenny Simpson: ‘Education is the foundation’
Posted on December 20, 2020
Lenny Simpson stood on the tennis court at 1406 Orange St. in Wilmington where, 67 years earlier, he’d peeked through the bushes to get a glimpse of legends.
Simpson’s childhood home, which still exists, was a block away on Ann Street, across what used to be a field where he and the other neighborhood kids would play sandlot football and baseball.