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"I've buried people in better shape than I am". Richie Hebner, after running two miles at Spring Training. "In a good winter I'll dig 50 graves. It's good work. I get 25 bucks a grave. If it has snowed, you just use a pick and shovel, scoop away the snow, the ground is good and soft. But if it hasn't snowed, the ground might be frozen two feet down. You have to use a pneumatic drill. One time last winter, the ground was so hard and the weather was so cold I said, 'Ah, that's deep enough.' There's a law that a grave's got to be so deep, five feet or something, and the Rabbi says, 'That's not deep enough.' 'Did you ever see one get out?' I asked him. Another time with one woman, they forgot to take off her wooden leg, and we had thrown several shovels of dirt on her already when somebody came up and said we had to get her back out so they could get her wooden leg. Another woman fell into the grave in the middle of the service. Did a header. 'Get her out, get her out,' the rabbi was yelling. I said, 'Naw, leave her in there and give her a discount.' The Rabbi looked at my father and said, 'Who is this you've got digging graves?'" Richie Hebner. LEGEND! "The Boston Bruins were interested in me and people thought I would sign with them and have a career in pro hockey." Richie Hebner. Some New England hockey experts have ranked Richie Hebner as the second best player ever to come out of the Boston area. Only player ahead of him was Robbie Ftorek. But Hebner was ranked ahead of players like Rod Langway, Bob Carpenter, Tom Barrasso, Tony Amonte and even Jeremy "Hollywood" Roenick.