# Professional athlete competing alongside someone born after they made debut **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 9, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professional-athlete-competing-alongside-someone-born-after-they-made-debut/827462 "2019-01-09T12:20:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professional-athlete-competing-alongside-someone-born-after-they-made-debut/827462/81 "2019-04-19T14:23:10Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Many fathers-sons pairings in MLB: Bobby and Barry Bonds, Ken Griffey Sr and Jr, Felipe and Moises Alou, Jose Cruz Sr and Jr, Sandy and Roberto Alomar, and Cecil and Prince Fielder, to name only a few. The Sandy Alomar that played with Roberto was his brother. Sandy Alomar Sr. retired about ten years before Roberto made it in the big leagues. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professional-athlete-competing-alongside-someone-born-after-they-made-debut/827462/82 "2019-10-27T14:55:34Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Roger Federer has been pro since 1998. Certainly there are pro players he has played born after that. Just bumping this to note that Federer is, as I type this, serving in a championship match at the Swiss Indoors against Alex de Minaur (who, being all of _twenty,_ was born days after Federer played in the 1999 Australian Open). ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professional-athlete-competing-alongside-someone-born-after-they-made-debut/827462/83 "2019-10-28T08:03:10Z")
Damn! Federer lost in the qualifying round to Olivier Delaître. Federer’s first ever appearance in the main event of a GS Tournament was in that years French Open. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professional-athlete-competing-alongside-someone-born-after-they-made-debut/827462/84 "2019-10-28T15:56:49Z")
> [@D.E.S.K.Top668](#): > > First, I was deciding whether to mention professional wrestlers when I came across the above. > Second, while it’s not a real sport, I think it’s insulting to refer to them as anything other then professional athletes. And while they don’t actually compete against each other in the ring, the need to perform at the highest level to keep their position was, until recently, essential. > A 40 year old ice skater trying out for “Jurassic Park on Ice” against a 20 year old ice skater is a professional athlete competing against another, just not in a sport. > > Just my. $0.02 - DESK I wouldn’t call professional wrestlers “professional athletes.” I consider them to be the same as stuntmen, and I don’t consider stuntmen to be athletes. For me, the word “athlete” implies that you compete against other people. While wrestlers and stuntmen perform amazing physical feats, they don’t compete against anyone athletically. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/professional-athlete-competing-alongside-someone-born-after-they-made-debut/827462.md?page=4)