# Most notable bespectacled athletes **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 12, 2020, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-notable-bespectacled-athletes/922763 "2020-10-12T04:53:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-notable-bespectacled-athletes/922763/21 "2020-10-14T17:51:13Z")
Sean Doolittle, standout relief pitcher for the Washington Nationals, wears prescription glasses. Apropos of nothing, he is a big sci-fi and fantasy reader and tweets about independent bookstores he finds while traveling for games. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-notable-bespectacled-athletes/922763/22 "2020-10-14T18:09:30Z")
Well, he was a decent reliever but not this season and he’s probably no longer with the Nats, he’s testing free agency. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2020, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-notable-bespectacled-athletes/922763/23 "2020-10-15T04:48:06Z")
Dom DiMaggio, The Little Professor. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-notable-bespectacled-athletes/922763/24 "2020-10-17T02:24:03Z")
[The Hanson brothers](https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/content/uploads/data-import/78da5ad9/slapshotlarge.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2020, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-notable-bespectacled-athletes/922763/25 "2020-10-17T02:37:32Z")
Little factoid about the Hanson Brothers… They were actually the inspiration for the Sutter Brothers. The movie left an indelible mark on Ma & PA Sutter. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2020, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-notable-bespectacled-athletes/922763/26 "2020-10-19T06:18:07Z")
One of the top five alltime NHL coaches, Al Arbour, in his playing days, [looked pretty sharp with the ol’ specs on.](https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/495747871474755982/?nic_v2=1avbrDdnz) Even fought with them! 🙂 Tom Henke Bobby Riggs been mentioned? ---
**Author:** ![stuccosuperstar2020](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@stuccosuperstar2020](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuccosuperstar2020)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-notable-bespectacled-athletes/922763/27 "2020-11-05T10:34:08Z")
Even as a Phillies fan I wasn’t going to bring him up until I realized he was 1950 NL MVP as a friggin’ RELIEF PITCHER so I give you the vastly underrated and overlooked Jim Konstanty. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-notable-bespectacled-athletes/922763/28 "2020-11-05T13:07:08Z")
Rodrigo Blankenship, kicker for my Indianapolis Colts, wears glasses on the field. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2020, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-notable-bespectacled-athletes/922763/29 "2020-11-06T22:32:25Z")
Clive Lloyd, the great West Indian cricketer, and long-time captain of the West Indies national team during the period of dominance in the 1970s and 1980s, wore glasses for a fair portion of his career. I believe that he switched to contact lenses later on. New Zealand spin bowler Daniel Vettori and Indian leg-spin bowler Anil Kumble also wore glasses while playing. I’m sure there are others, but they’re the ones I remember from watching the sport. ---
**Author:** ![AppallingGael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AppallingGael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AppallingGael)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-notable-bespectacled-athletes/922763/30 "2020-11-16T13:32:32Z")
Specs Toporcer, whom I remember from [this](https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/29/sports/red-smith-spec-toporcer-writes.html) Red Smith column, one of his last (it won’t, by the way, count against your monthly allowance of NY Times articles). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-notable-bespectacled-athletes/922763.md?page=1)