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Washington Nationals owner Ted Lerner isn't slowing down at 81. An exclusive inside profile of the very private owner of Washington's major league baseball team - Bethesda Magazine, March/April 2007
At 81, billionaire Ted Lerner of Chevy Chase has his attention fixed on the things he loves the most: his family, the community and his latest business venture, the Washington Nationals.
Here's something you probably didn't know about Washington Nationals owner Ted Lerner: He pumps his own gas.
Aviva Kempner, the film producer who made a documentary about Baseball Hame of Fame slugger Hank Greenberg that Lerner helped fund, saw him do it oone afternoon on upper Connecitut Avenuye NW. "I remember telling [his daughter Debra] about it, and she laughed and said, 'That's just like Dad.'" That's not all. On game days, the fabuolously wealthy and remarkably unmprettentious Lerner drives himself and his wife, Annette, to RFK Staidum. No chuafferur for the boss...
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