Our Greatest Bespectacled Distance Runner?

Did Greg Maddux wear glasses all his baseball years? Not sure. Many pictures of him wearing and not wearing eyeglasses.

Gary isn’t even the greatest bespectacled distance runner UVA has had - that’d be UVA 10K school record holder Zach Herriott

That “spectacle in spectacles” comment was so bad.

How about the great Bill Crothers, Canadian Olympian silver medalist in Tokyo 1964 ?

That's a really good one. Do you know if he's still alive?

Horace Grant (NBA)

Eric Dickerson (NFL)

Reggie Jackson (MLB)

Ed Belfour (NHL)

Gerd Müller (soccer)

Edwin Moses (the man)

Martina Navratilova & Arthur Ashe (tennis)

Goggles Paisano (disqualified from the Indianrockolis 500)

The So brothers, twins from Japan, who were a dominant forces on in the marathon and on the track in the 1970s and 1980s.

Takeshi So - PR 2:08:55 in 1983 (4th in 1984 Olympic Marathon)

Shigeru So - PR 2:09:05 in 1978 (Competed in 1976 and 1984 Olympic Games)

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Shigeru Soh of Japan, followed by his twin brother Takeshi Soh of...

Shigeru Soh of Japan, followed by his twin brother Takeshi Soh of Japan, and Alberto Salazar of the USA, run the last lap in Heiwadai Stadium of the 1983 Fukuoka International Marathon held on...

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I was at the national meet. The Oregon record holder Silan Hadayyiz, I'm not going to try to spell that name correctly, wears glasses all the time except when she races

Didn’t know Lindgren’s name when I was in junior high way back when, but the feeling captured by this picture made me all-in on running when I saw it.

It's World Champ Josh Kerr, clearly

dieter baumann?

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im Interview: "Wenn ich meinen Körper nicht überreden kann, dann verschiebe ich einfach mein Training" - Planet Interview

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Top-Athlet Dieter Baumann über den Umgang mit den Medien, Zukunftspläne, hohe Startgelder beim Marathon, Höhentraining in exotischen Ländern und darüber, dass er nicht an den inneren Schweinehund glaubt

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