Vain.

She and her family lived in their house in Greenwich Village, New York, but young Simon loved spending most of her time at the estate in Stamford, Connecticut. During that time, she became close to baseball player Jackie Robinson who was a very good friend of the family. Jackie would take her to his games and fans even considered her the team’s mascot.

“Jackie even taught me how to bat lefty, though it never took,” Simon wrote in her memoir Boys in the Trees, published in 2015. “He always had the cutest look around the side of his mouth, as if he were thinking about what he was about to say before he said it.”