Is it quite ironic that Edward Ted Kennedy is the last of nine children born?”
For a while back in the 1930s the initials E.K. appeared several times on a board at the Hyannis Yacht Club on Cape Cod. They indicated the champion sailor for that particular year in the 18-foot wooden sloop division. Edward “Ted” Kennedy, the senator from Massachusetts and the last of nine children of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, would boast from time to time that they stood for “Edward Kennedy.” But if sister Eunice, 11 years his senior, was around, she would gleefully point out, “Teddy, you were only a baby at the time.” The E.K.’s indeed belonged to Eunice. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the founder of a sports movement that changed the world, died early Tuesday morning at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., with several members of America’s most famous family at her side. She was 88 and had battled for over a year after suffering a series of strokes. Eunice received SI’s first Sportsman of the Year Legacy Award last December, recognizing her as the founder of Special Olympics and the singl
