Frank Beaurepaire won 3 silver medals and 3 bronze medals in swimming at Olympics from 1908-1924.
However, he was barred from competing in the 1912 Olympics, because he was employed as a PE teacher and therefore a ‘Professional Sportsman’. The Australian 4x200m relay team won gold in 1912. Frank Beaurepaire was the reigning Australian 200m champion. You work it out…
The decision to ban him was reversed in 1914. He missed 1916 Olympics because…1916. Won Silver and Bronze medals at both 1920 and 1924 games.
Later became Lord Mayor of Melbourne, did Sir Frank.
I would agree Haddix is the least of those four pitchers - Martinez is in the Hall ,Mussina should be, and Stieb is a borderline case - but Harvey Haddix was a pretty darned good pitcher in his own right. Calling a guy with 30 career WAR and who won two games in a World Series his team won just “middling” seems a little off to me.
I’d say losing it on the 27th to a obvious-to-a-blind-man umpire error is worse.
And even worse is even though MLB went back decades to eliminate no-hitters based on a new rule, they wouldn’t fix that one the same day.
MLB can say all they want that Armando Galarraga didn’t throw a perfect game, but the fact of the matter is that he did, and Bud Selig’s stupidity doesn’t change that. I don’t care what the MLB record book says; it’s wrong.
Indeed, I would submit to you that he threw the most perfect game ever; 28 batters, and he got every one of them out.
Takamiyama, the great American sumo trailblazer, one stated in an interview that he wanted to be the first ever 40-year-old sekitori. In the May 1984 basho, he went 2-13 from Juryo 12, a mark guaranteed to knock him out of the sekitori ranks; he retired rather than face this humiliation. Age…39 years, 11 months. :eek:
On a related note, long-time survivalist Kaio had just turned 39 when he went kadoban (for a record 14th time). As he was ozeki and had much farther to fall, he almost certainly could’ve become the first ever 40-year-old sekitori if he wanted to. But he was tired of the physical grind and wanted to get started as an oyakata, so he retired immediately.
Kyokutenho would finally be the one to break through in the September 2014 tournament. He was still in Makuuchi when he retired at the age of 40 years, 10 months.
