Eighty-four-year-old Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack challenged Clark Griffith, the seventy-eight-year-old owner of the Senators, to a race from third base to home plate, to take place prior to an exhibition game on April 4, 1948. An ambulance drove the two competitors, as well as a doctor and two nurses, to the starting line. Commissioner Happy Chandler officiated the race and Senators coach Nick Altrock fired the starting gun. The race ended in a close tie, or as Commissioner Chandler described it, “a dead heat.”
Surprised it didn’t end just “dead” without the “heat.”
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It would have been great if there was some video footage of the race. That way we can see their expressions at the finish line 😉