Pettit was the wide-eyed kid who loved eating his drinks with chopsticks.

After games at the Garden, it is common to see him with wide-eyed kids, some in wheelchairs, touring the locker room.

"Because I was a wide-eyed kid, I could ask questions of government officials or bankers with impunity."

This is not some wide-eyed, overawed kid sitting in the bleachers grasping a foul ball he just caught.

It was run by a bunch of wide-eyed kids who captured the public's imagination.

Sometimes he was the wide-eyed kid who had shipped on Starhopper, twenty-five years ago, to take his first jump into the Big Night.

When I was twelve, a wide-eyed kid, the police picked up my Dad.

"You can call me Uncle Tommy," he said to the two wide-eyed kids.

I was just a wide-eyed liberal kid with an eye on changing the world.

Nothing left of those wide-eyed kids now.