Complex sentence: Ed Crankshaft is a widower with two daughters, Pam and Chris (he had a son who died as an infant), a former World War II veteran, and was an aspiring baseball player who never made it to the major leagues.
Split into simpler sentences: Ed Crankshaft is a widower with two daughters, Pam and Chris (he had a son who died as an infant) and is a World War II veteran. In his youth, he was an aspiring baseball player who never made it to the major leagues.