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.”
1951 Clark Griffith and Connie Mack Old Timers Day (Mears Online)
