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Warren Buffett, The $59 Billion Philanthropist
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October 1993
By Robert Lenzner
On the night of Aug. 17 a steady stream of young baseball fans approached a middle-aged businessman wearing a red polo shirt who was sitting near the field at Omaha’s Rosenblatt Stadium. Often shyly, always deferentially, they asked him to sign their scorecards. Warren Buffett accommodated them—in such numbers as to almost guarantee the famous financier’s signature won’t bring premium prices on the autograph market.
Except for the polite autograph seekers, there were no indications that this pale, slightly bulging Omaha native was the richest person in America and an investment genius on a scale that the world rarely sees. There were no fawning retainers or hangers-on, no bodyguards to drive off paparazzi and supplicants. Buffett is 25% owner of the Omaha Royals, minor league affiliate of the Kansas City Royals, and by all appearances that day you would have thought that is all he is. His close friend, Charles Munger, puts it this way: “One of the reasons Warren is so cheerful is that he doesn’t have to remember his lines”—meaning that the public Buffett and the private Buffett are the same man.
